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Word: discomfort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before by the knowledge that he is in private life a cabaret singer and master of ceremonies who must have picked up what he knows of the bad ways of the plains while appearing on the Palace circuit. A sheep in wolf's clothing, he sometimes retaliates for his discomfort by glossing his role with furtive mockery, quickly suppressed. Some of the photography is pretty and the theme song, "Under a Texas Moon," better than the average. Silliest shot: Fay eloping with Myrna Loy, when he might have had Armida or Raquel Torres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...person resting in still, humid air is comfortable until the temperature reaches 90° F.; a light breeze lets him stay so until 95°. However if he is working his muscles he feels discomfort at 80°. At 100° a man can do four times as much work if the air is dry (humidity 30) than if it were saturated (humidity 100). With humidity at the ordinary 60, the subjects did five times more work at 90° than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Best Working Temperatures | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses a minute they felt as though they were "floating on air" and were at the verge of heat stroke. Dr. McConnell endangered them no further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Best Working Temperatures | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...pictures. The absence of shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cinema ~:~ THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER ~:~ Drama | 2/12/1930 | See Source »

...drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Transfer Talk | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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