Word: invalidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the War, William A. Wilson was a chemist. After the War he was an invalid, unfit for strenuous work. In Springfield, Mo. he tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted...
Northwestern Mutual was founded by a rawboned old adventurer who never became its president. In Catskill, N. Y., in the 1840's lived a maker of invalid chairs who called himself General John C. Johnston. Soon after Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York was organized he got a job with it, placed his chair near the office door, never let a prospect by. In 1857 he gathered together the 36 trustees required to start a life insurance company in Wisconsin. By the time he had collected the $200,000 needed to begin operations the trustees had decided they...
Last year was an eventful one for him. The National Government needed his prestige to survive its first hard months. He became president of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. He married a second time. His first wife, to whom he was devoted, was long an invalid, died in 1930. His second was Stella Charnaud. who had been first his typist, then his chief political adviser. She is 38, was once offered a $25,000-a-year-job in Wall Street which she promptly refused. Her solicitude is extreme for her husband who, at 72, has all the suavity, grace and quickness...
...consider the dissolution decree invalid," cried Speaker Goring, "because it was presented by a Government which the Reichstag has overthrown...
...jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown. He wrote mostly at night, with...