Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are 44,885 deaf mutes in the U.S.?425 per million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...
America moves fast. Speed has leaped to the fore of our national traits. Elinor Wylie calls it a national fever: Americans, she says, keep the pavements...
...Union today Major General Fries will present the case for chemical warfare. Since recovering from the war fever, the country has been singularly apathetic towards military preparations. Whether this is a passing attitude or a permanent lowering of the pugnacious spirit, is not yet apparent. The student body, too, has felt this reaction and the pacifistic sentiment is well represented in the University, as last year's discussion proved. Thus an intelligent decision on the question of preparedness or pacifism demands both sides be heard; and toward this end General Fries will be most welcome...
...protest. The Government had issued a decree that no one might speculate in stocks or bonds without a 25% margin. Finance Minister de Stefani had become alarmed because bellboys rushed from hotels, chauffeurs left their cars, laborers left their ditches to telephone orders to the stock exchanges, in a fever of speculation...
That winter, he lay ill in Charles Brown's house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then...