Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elephants amused Vag no end. Maybe it was their huge strength that attracted him, or their soft and sensitive cars. But whatever it was, he loved to watch them eat peanuts out of his hand, and do amazing tricks at the trainer's command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want...
Said Dr. Martin, warming to his subject, a mother's emotions have great influence upon her child's teeth, even before the baby is born. A woman who is anxious, apprehensive or resentful during pregnancy may not bother to eat tooth-forming foods (calcium, phosphorus and vitamins). After the child is born, she must be the thermostat to the "emotional climate of the home." A mother who pampers her child never lets him get his teeth into anything. Consider the Eskimos, said Dr. Martin. They "use their teeth for everything, including softening frozen leather," and Eskimos rarely suffer...
Harvard Years. In 1912 Dr. Cushing became Professor of Surgery at Harvard, and head of the famous Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His labors were phenomenal. He would rise shortly after seven, eat a light breakfast, work on his medical articles, then go to the hospital. One operation sometimes took him eight hours. He performed three or four such long operations each week...
...University of Chicago Junior John Patrick scoffed at "eastern sissies," chewed and swallowed two and one-half phonograph records, but was too fastidious to eat the labels...
Other criteria of emotion in Dr. Hall's rats were refusal to eat, refusal to move about. They were placed in the enclosure for two minutes a day, day after day. In general the emotional rats manifested uneasiness longest, started eating latest. The psychologist bred emotional males to emotional females, unemotional males to unemotional females. He thus obtained two second generations, one of which was seven times more emotional than the other. Conclusion: "Differences in emotionality appear to be genetically determined...