Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compounds (such as diphenylchloroarsine, diphenylcyonoarsine). In small concentrations, these gases have a sternutatory (sneeze causing) effect and in larger concentrations cause acute pain similar to but more violent than that caused by fresh water getting into the nose while bathing. An accompanying symptom is appalling mental distress and misery. They are rarely fatal, but very difficult to control with respirators, owing to the fact that the molecules, moving very slowly, can get through the walls of most masks in effective quantities...
...President received two onetime Governors: Henry J. Allen of Kansas, Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Later, Mr. Allen expressed the fear that Mr. Coolidge's economy talks were creating an unwarranted "buyers' strike," thereby injuring business. Mr. Lowden pointed out that there is still distress on many farms...
...Cries of distress die away in the distance...
...personal friend of the exiled family published a story of their distress. Young Otto, said she, had been outdoors playing. He tore his breeches. While they were being mended he was obliged to keep to his bed, for be had but one pair...
...dark side of the cloud is dark indeed. In January, there were 149 suicides in Vienna, most of which were attributed to "the general distress" now sweeping that city. The total of suicides for January is the largest known for 43 years. The average monthly number is about...