Word: chronically
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Opened soon, just around the corner on Third Avenue from the first green-fronted store, a second: The Wholesome Products Co., malt & hops, imported cordials and glassware. This too was guarded by the Supreme Protective System, but the clerk, a mere youth, appeared to be in a state of chronic fright...
...more pleasing aspects in University tradition is the legend of Great Men at Harvard. Closely interwoven with this has been the chronic undergraduate complaint of the inability of close personal contact with the well-known Figures because of the unwieldy size of the College. One suggestion to remedy that shortcoming was the installation of the Friday afternoon Faculty teas at the Union, affording the average student a two-hour closeup of the leading professors and tutors connected with his own department. The scarcity of student-material at these gatherings hints more of exaggeration of the important of the wish than...
Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...
...depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...
...Youngest and most delicate of George V's four sons is Prince George, 26, who has to be careful of his stomach. "Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...