Word: chronically
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...contents of TIME between covers continues to be the best reading in the country and the only criticism I make is the observation that, having chronic insomnia, I have formed the habit of perusing the magazine during wakeful hours, and it is far from a soporific and I need a mental sedative rather than a mental stimulant. Unless you can insert some poetry between advertisements I shall have to find a substitute for TIME for night reading. The only poetry I can comprehend is limericks. Perhaps you will suggest some particularly stupid magazine guaranteed to produce sleep...
...twelve he had struck his head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...
...institution for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis, and a place for convalescence under medical supervision. Not to be confused with sanitarium, a health resort...
...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...
...Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment...