Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Provincial congress, to set up a hospital at what is now 95 Brattle Street. The wounded British prisoners were taken there, and within two months Dr. Foster and his staff of assistants recruited from among the undergraduates of the College, were maintaining the main sick bay of the army. From this emergency station developed the present Harvard Medical School...
...rainy, but Englewood High School, in which the word had gone around the day before, was quickly followed by Crane High School, where 2,000 responded to posted placards; by Calumet, which disgorged nearly all of its 5,000 students; by Forestville, where teachers slyly took part by reporting "sick"; by others which brought the total of strikers near 50,000, teachers estimated, most of them in South Side high schools...
...mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though ''Mister John" Ringling was too sick to come up from Florida, the opening of his circus on this 50th Anniversary of his and his six dead brothers' entrance into show business was a polychromatic paragon of perfection...
...form a furtive posse. The next time you see the murderer he is staring into a cutlery shop window. There, framed in knives, he sees reflected the figure of a little girl behind him. He turns around and starts toward her, whistling the tune that is connected in his sick mind with what he wants...
Orchid Man Lager usually hunted alone with native bearers, sending his finds back to his Partner Henry Hurrell, now 78, by muleback, canoe and raft. Once a hostile Indian tribe led him into virgin orchid territory after he had cured a sick child with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager...