Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blushers, Cheer Up. No one knows exactly what causes high blood pressure; it is not, as many suppose, merely old age or overindulgence in red meat, salt, drinking or smoking. About 40% of hypertensives seem to inherit a tendency to it; even babies sometimes have it. Dr. Page blames excitable nervous systems for a great many cases (evidenced by the fact that anger or fear makes blood pressure jump), and he suspects that another source of the disease is a chemical called angiotonin, released by the kidneys when their blood supply goes wrong...
Faith ("a message of courage and good cheer") contains daily prayers, plenty of testimonials from members who have got out of debt, staved off illness, found happiness in a once-sordid world...
...Messina's civilians the fall of the city was a relief. Two hundred of them came out in their rags and gave a feeble cheer. When the enemy guns started shelling from the mainland, they scurried out of town. It is unlikely that many will come back for a long time. There is nothing for them to come back to. Of all the wrecked cities of Sicily none is so thoroughly wrecked as Messina. From one end of the town to the other, I have not seen a building that has not been damaged...
...then, of course, there are all the other V-12ers that nobody knows about and who will be eligible for football, except for the Freshmen. Equally Important, they and all the other servicemen there will be able to go to the Stadium on Saturday afternoons and cheer as Harvard...
Then the men on the inland side of the column got a chance to cheer their favorites in a sulky race that seemed to be in full swing at a track which the marchers passed. Girls leaned from the grandstand and waved while the column pounded past, and several small boys rode bicycles in pursuit of the company...