Word: dyspepsia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and could surely, speedily and permanently be cured by the use of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND." The opposition had nothing to match this; Dan was elected...
...three weeks ago, or on the trip over. The 1948 squad differed a little from former U.S. teams: the majority of them were ex-G.I.s, many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked...
...Risk of Dyspepsia. Reading, says Essayist Jackson, is an art. The real reader is a collaborating artist in the production of literature. "The writer expresses himself in a book, the reader through a book. Reading at its most intense becomes writing by proxy. When Schopenhauer said that reading was merely thinking with other people's brains, he was right. Reading is even further in that direction. IHs becoming someone else for the time being . . . and when we read we do not so much enter into the souls of others; we let them enter into us. We become Shakespeare...
...reader" selects and delves. He ruminates. "To scamper through a book is like bolting your food: you miss the flavor and risk dyspepsia." The creative reader is not necessarily widely read: "The well-read man is often one who has accumulated knowledge at the expense of imagination." Real reading is a process of remembering. "Books rarely if ever put anything into the mind of the reader which is not already there. The primary effect of reading is awakening, not informing. . . Books startle the mind into closer and more vivid contact with its own culture, or send it adventuring into strange...
...Faculties, and particularly departments, without any control by competent educational dietitians, were encouraged to multiply the dishes on the steam table of the educational cafeteria. No wonder the helpless victims suffered all manner of educational dyspepsia and malnutrition...