Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When last year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced, the news amounted to little more than confirmation of what Gossiper Walter Winchell had already told the world. Determined to safeguard every breath of thunder, the Columbia University Trustees this year canceled the customary advance releases to the Press, kept the winners' names secret for the formal announcement last week at a Manhattan banquet...
When news of the failure flashed westward, both the Kansas City and St. Louis grain exchanges closed down. Wheat sank on the Winnipeg and Minneapolis exchanges, only major grain markets open in all of North America. Grain brokers from coast to coast held their breath in anticipation of a grand market smash...
...Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
Those on the ground saw the white puff of his opening parachute, breathed easier. Then they held their breath for the parachute had only partly opened before tangling in the wings. Spinning head over heels, Stunter Davis plunged earthward. Groundlings waited anxiously for the second parachute to billow out. It never did. When they reached the body (see cut) the ripcord ring was still in place...
Anxiety States are the commonest of all neuroses. The patient is in a continuous condition of fear, physically and mentally. His heart palpitates; his limbs are weak; he cannot digest his food; he sweats easily; he gets out of breath. Mentally he is often the victim of one of the foregoing phobias. Dr. Sigmund Freud believes that anxiety states are always caused by sexual frustration. But, says FORTUNE, "most psychiatrists would also include financial worries, domestic friction, and other non-sexual causes. In some ways an anxiety state resembles an acute neurasthenia...