Word: constricts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this College. Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and all the vitality from the Harvard system, and the moral degeneration for which they are responsible is cumulative. They are making a mockery of a Harvard education; a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...dead," said he. But the agonized father would not give up hope. He dashed 14 miles to Wheeling, ran into the hospital, gave the baby to Dr. Edward L. Larson. Dr. Larson put Robert into a hot bath, massaged his heart, tried artificial respiration, and finally adrenalin to constrict the small blood vessels and send a rush of necessary blood to the heart. In half an hour little Robert stirred, whimpered, opened his eyes. Next day he cried, suckled, belched as lustily as ever. Little Robert's accident last week furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that...
...coffee contains about one-tenth of a gram of caffeine. In mild doses, the action of this drug is to step up the pulse rate, increase the flow of blood in the coronary arteries that serve the heart itself, stimulate the thinking areas of the brain, constrict the blood vessels. In a recent paper abstracted last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Robert Louis Levy of Columbia University declared that in certain high-strung individuals under mental or emotional stress, coffee may cause heart pains...
...characters." The men characters, all of whom are undergraduates except for a lonely college professor, may not have much maturity, but they are well stocked with charm and witty sayings. To one, for instance, a girl's college is "a place where they teach the boas to constrict...
...shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages and scares also affect the growth of hair by exhausting the adrenals. High fevers have a like effect...