Word: felts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat 1924, some 8,386,503 others felt as Democrat Cofer now feels. But some 15,725,016 Republicans feeling otherwise, inserted President Coolidge ahead of Great Man Davis...
...item passed beneath my eyes, and shattered my slumber Appropriately enough, it was an earthquake story which did it, appearing under the head SCIENCE in TIME, March 12. This item referred to a quake shock at "dreadfully hot Bakersfield," and seemed to imply that a series of mild shocks felt here about ten days ago was a fulfillment of a prophecy of Prof. Willis of Stanford for earthquake at Los Angeles...
Before the. discovery of chloroform, hypnotism was used in operations to clear the patient's mind of fear, and in favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either...
...days, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer; for 57 days, his friend and erstwhile companion, Karsten Anderson, whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...
...done before his belligerent sojourn in Greece. But his brief and comfortable enchantment was shattered by the arrival of Clara Hunting's sons, together with Mr. Hodge, their tutor. He, a teacher of mathematics, resented the untidy brilliance of Mr. Hazard; his resentment was effective. Mr. Hazard felt himself compelled to resume elsewhere his pursuit of peace, a pursuit always profitless in this dusty world for one like Mr. Hazard, who, fierce, bewildered, and alone, was not entirely its inhabitant...