Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They...
...person's weight (seven grains for a 200-lb. man or woman) increased a person's metabolism by 30%, made him half again as lively as before getting the dose. This sluggard's prodding has been kept up for three months with no ascertainable discomfort or injury to the people experimented on. An equivalent dosage of thyroid gland, another dissipator of indolence, would have made the experimentees irritable. Dinitrophenol caused no nervousness, anxiety, trembling, hunger or palpitation. It raised neither temperature, respiration nor pulse...
...nightmare of discomfort to thousands of Japanese soldiers was the capture of Jehol Province last winter. Lush dreams to millions of Chinese and a headache to the League of Nations was contained in an announcement last week that the Japanese-Manchukuo Government was doing everything in its power to increase the cultivation of opium in Jehol. The old Chinese tax of ten yuan ($2) a mow (1/6; acre) on poppy fields will be reduced one-half by Japan...
...know nothing of veterinary medicine as I have noted before, but your description of "nicking" is a crime (TIME, May 1). If it were an "excruciatingly painful" process no decent veterinarian-and many of us are decent -would do it. It is silly but causes a horse no particular discomfort when properly done. I have seen at least a dozen operated and observed them afterwards and they seemed as comfortable as any of our other animals. No incisions are made on top of the tail. If flexor muscles were cut eight or ten inches from the base of the tail...
...Humane Association and by Secretary John E. Cowden of the Jockey Club. The New York Veterinary Hospital says that in nicking an incision is usually made on top as well as beneath the horse's tail, that the operation need not necessarily be painful, that the chief discomfort is caused by the horse's inability to use his tail to brush off flies. Sometimes the operation does not have to be repeated, but the horse must wear his brace when not on show...