Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exhausted and wild with fever in the London Hospital, he demanded that his room be lined with blocks of ice. He had the money with which to build an ice palace. Why shouldn't he have a room of ice when his head was throbbing so and his whole body was burning...
...telegram is punched out in a series of dots and dashes. But a cable streams along from an inked "syphon" pen in angles and curves like a fever chart. Curves above an imaginary line are "dots"; curves below are dashes. The number depends on the curve length. The operator reads in words, not letters...
After all fevers, the hairs fall. This loss begins close to 90 days after the height of the fever...
Spring, as Botticelli so aptly put it, comes all in a lump. It is heralded by many things, by the zephyr, by the crocus, by false alarms, by the appearance of checkered golf hose, by a certain fever. Not least is it characterized by what might be called the de-hibernation of athletics...
...probably even in his case the fever will work for optimism, and he will realize that, as the meteorologists tell, there is nothing more normal than a "seasonal control". And he may also remember what he has long known but perhaps forgotten under the necessity of reports that there is no such thing as an "average undergraduate", except in advertisements for quality cut clothes and in non-defining editorials. And that even if there were, what he did or said or thought would matter as little to anyone as to him. The college that always considers the average undergraduate will...