Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang at the front gate-which included a student railroad ticket salesman from Wabash College, the opera salesmen and two students from Northwestern University who took the opera tickets at the gate-was talking things over when a small Italian boy came running up to us almost out of breath. He was so excited that for a minute he could say nothing, but after a rest he told us what had happened...
Loss of carbon dioxide occurs through the lungs. Carbon dioxide is both a product of breathing and a necessary stimulant which the lungs need to keep functioning. Because of this shortage, the lungs function inadequately, the patient pants, gasps, loses his breath. For lack of carbon dioxide in the lungs the red blood cells in the arteries and veins hold back their oxygen thus causing air hunger throughout the tissues...
Lastly arise the "Gimme Groups" such as the American Legion, Van Zandt's "Veterans of Foreign Wars" and the publicity seeking "D. A. R." Mouth-filling, ear-catching, windy phrases reeking with "patriotism", "Americanism", "loyalty", "love of your country" and the rest; meaning nothing, with no single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support...
Last week, having rounded out a twelve-month rise without serious interruption, the stockmarket paused for breath. The first anniversary of the Roosevelt bull market passed with no such elated demonstration as that which carried the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages to a flat 300 on the last trading day of 1928. Indeed, the peak of the present rise was registered two weeks before when the averages touched 158.7, a clear gain of 64% from the 1935 low of 96.7. The Dow-Jones railroad stock average showed an even more spectacular gain for the year-85%. Largely because they...
While Europe watches with bated breath...