Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governor. Loud, red-headed Governor Long soon began to fulfill his campaign promises, to turn Louisiana topsy-turvy. Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became his bitter foe. When Governor Long ran for the U. S. Senate last year he made another promise, aimed to reassure Louisiana voters, to discomfort Cyr, whom he called "the retired tooth chiseler." If elected, he promised, he would not take his seat until after his term as Governor expired in May 1932. He was elected...
...dozen scientists, some in their underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...
Mortician Hoffman afterward announced: "Undoubtedly it was one of the most beautiful and impressive burials ever held in Omaha." Hot weather, he pointed out, adds to the discomfort of the bereaved, cool night services would be "of a comforting nature" to them. Moreover, as a matter of convenience, friends and relatives would not have to leave their work during the day if people were buried at night...
Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...gymnasium on the boxing-room and fencing room floor? There is hardly one shower in which a majority of the needle-points are in working condition. As a result the water comes through the few points that are clear with such force that it produces great discomfort and difficulty in getting a proper shower. Another point is that the mixer when turned so as to produce cold water, reduces the water pressure to a minimum...