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Word: distressful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a legend that Mexico City's altitude (7,800 ft.) causes heart trouble, says Dr. Chávez. Though some visitors who arrive with heart disease may feel distress and be advised to leave, natives and long-term residents are not affected. Only above 10,000 ft. does altitude trouble the healthy heart, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Love, Science & the Heart | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...bridal suite. That night, to the disgust of the other guests, he gets drunk, and the next morning, to their scandal, they discover that he has not only abandoned the poor young thing on her wedding night but has stolen her pocketbook, too. The maiden is not long in distress. The other guests, led by a kindly old dowager (Marie

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Zoologists Hubert Frings and Joseph Jumber of Pennsylvania State College observed that starlings have a special "distress call." Sneaking into a barn one winter night, the researchers caught a starling that was sheltering there and held it up by its feet. The bird gave a piercing shriek, and the other starlings fled from the barn. When the trick worked well in several barns, Frings and Jumber caught more starlings and made them shriek their distress calls into a tape recorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starlings in Distress | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...night last summer, at State College, Pa., where 20,000 starlings had formed a monstrous roost, Frings and Jumber set up their tape recorder under four infested trees. The starlings awoke to the nightmare sound of starlings in deep distress. They fled the haunted trees and did not come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starlings in Distress | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year later, though net operating income rose 81% during 1953, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Northwest Exit | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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