Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects. On himself, Dr. Fabing noted "a quickening of my pulse by 25 beats ... a pilomotor [hair-on-end] response on my forearms, a dryness of the mouth, a sudden excessive sweating of the palms a feeling of epigastric distress...
Well, if this money has not been spent to relieve genuine distress, how has it been spent? . . . What has Mr. Roosevelt, who likes to talk so much about morality in ' government and politics, to say to this picture of jobless, hungry people eating out of garbage cans while his henchmen, in his name, use relief funds to buy their wav back into office...
...American Airways' Los Angeles Operations Manager Major Daniel E. Ellis had an idea, took it to California Institute of Technology's young Research Physicist Anthony Easton. Last week, Researcher Easton finished his job: the design for an automatic distress signal. The apparatus is a two-tube, five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose...
Utah's percentage of population on work relief rolls (2.1) is still the eighth highest in the nation. Although some publicists claim that the Security Program has cared for 22,000 out of 88,000 Mormons in distress, most investigators have concluded that the church has as yet no reliable figures. Significantly, nonpartisan Mormons have for the church's own good lately attempted to correct widespread misunderstandings of the Security Program. Said a paragraph buried in the church's last annual report: "The church has not yet made any effort, or pretended to make any effort...
...decentralizing its administration. Take it out of the hands of wasters and politicians and put it back into nonpolitical committees in each community and require the States and local communities to find 5 or 10% of the cost. That will provide greater and more sympathetic care for those in distress. It will restore confidence that the republic is not being destroyed by the purchase of elections...