Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Demon King or Witch...
...Yale Clinic, which charges no fees, psychiatric reassurance is combined with a few new wrinkles. One of them: group therapy. Selected groups of a dozen or so patients meet weekly to consider their problems and the Demon Rum. A modification of the Alcoholics Anonymous method (without the religious and confessional aspects), it has multiplied the number of patients that the clinic's limited staff can treat...
Invisible Demon. The obstacle to higher speeds was "compressibility," that invisible, ravening demon formed in the air by the plane's own motion. Long before an airplane itself reaches the speed of sound (770 m.p.h. at 68° F. at sea level), the air, which is speeded up by passing over its surfaces, touches locally that critical velocity. When it does, a "standing sound wave" may set up such vibration that the plane flies to pieces...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...
...Mother's little angel seems to turn to demon overnight. For Six, life is duplex. He seesaws between yes & no, love & hate, laughter & tears, chocolate & vanilla. A tough first-grade teacher who insists on his learning the three Rs may give Six a stomachache; he would rather play games. This little extravert loves praise, can't stand criticism, frequently confuses "thine" with "mine...