Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense that they can detect the faintest whisper, the slightest odor. The unconscious mind is a wonderfully accurate timekeeper, as posthypnotic suggestion demonstrates. If during hypnosis the suggestion is made that at a certain time, long after waking from the trance, the subject take off his shoes or burst into tears, he will usually do so precisely on time, though he may not have looked at his watch for hours...
...Doubleday, Doran ($2). Even a President of the U. S. has to go fishing once in a while; even a 17-year locust has to come up for air some time. On this all-work-and-no-play-makes-Jack-a-dull-boy principle. Author Louis Paul last week burst from his cell with a yell like a Siberian monk's. A Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost as much gusto as Phil...
...stepped forward to the rostrum and said: "I will ask that the Convention stand for one minute in solemn tribute to a great American-Will Rogers." Had National Democratic Chairman Farley paused a moment longer before naming his late "Great American," 3,000 delegates and alternates would doubtless have burst into improper cheers, so brimming were they with enthusiasm. For nearly an hour longer they restrained themselves, until Boss Farley came down upon the words: "that calm, capable and courageous Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Then, at the first mention of that magic name, the conventioneers raised their standards, their voices...
...business to keep track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove it. ... A colossal discovery...
...Only two real geniuses he has ever met, he says, were Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and D. H. Lawrence. Gaudier was for a time a close friend, then became a bitter enemy. Because of his threatening letters Murry went in fear of his life, hardly ventured out. Once Gaudier burst into his room, slapped his face. Murry did nothing at the time, "had a good cry" afterwards and felt better...