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...adrenalin. In a few minutes he felt an agonizing stab in his shoulder, a choking sensation in his throat, lightning pains down his left arm, a drenching sweat. Dr. Raab's agony was really a triumph. For he had produced, for the first time, symptoms of the dread heart disease, angina pectoris...
...those who dread the woodcut terrors of the Dance of Death or other bizarre inflections, and for whom all complex sanity is madness, David Smith will seem bewildering. But for those anxious to participate in his visions, there will come a stern pleasure in unraveling his thousand devices...
...Hampshire Militias), up to $1,000 cash bounty, 100 to 500 acres in land-bounty a man. Said General Washington, before the war and the bidding were well under way: "Never were soldiers whose pay and provision have been so abundant and ample. . . . There is some reason to dread that the enemies of New England's reputation may hereafter say it was not principle that saved them, but that they were bribed into the preservation of their liberties...
...well that Winston Churchill has this double appeal, because last week, for the first time, there appeared in London an ominous, terrifying thing. One of these two Britains - the one Adolf Hitler had hurt most cruelly - seemed to be shaken. Discontent incubated and spread like a dread disease. London realized that this was an overwhelming war against people; and people did not like...
Losing home-grown teeth and getting store ones is distressing to sensitive people. They chiefly dread 1 ) encountering friends and business associates while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself...