Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As time passed, he seemed to recover.
But he could not shake the fear that he might never recover completely. After his death, attendants found evidence of the lonely struggle of his wounded mind: a book, opened to Sophocles' "Chorus from Ajax," lay beside his bed. He had been reading:
Sophomore Oliver Iselin, who rows seven behind Curwen, was also confined to his room yesterday, and it is doubtful whether he will recover in time for the race.
Dickens had other ways of shocking friends such as Landor. He once sent the poet a deadpan note confiding 1) that he had fallen in love with Queen Victoria ("Don't mention this unhappy attachment," Dickens warned another friend gravely) and 2) that, in order to recover from this...
The game will take place out at Tufts, late in the afternoon so that players with generals can recover in time.