Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Manila, Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of the Philippine independence bill in Congress, last week continued to stir the brown-skinned natives to feverish excitement. Old Army men were shocked, politicos delighted, when he proposed that the U. S. turn over its fortress and defense works at Corregidor to the Filipinos. Voicing the sentiment of U. S. residents, the Manila Herald flayed the Senator for hobnobbing exclusively with the natives, for discourteously ignoring U. S. officials. So alarmed was one large commercial house over the prospect of independence that it applied to Lloyd...
Literature is therapeutic. First physician to prescribe reading for his patients was hearty Dr. Frangois Rabelais (Gargantua, Pantagruel) in about 1530. Now bibliotherapy is being studied carefully. Im- probable novels should be given tuberculous patients, so that they will not excite themselves by attempting to emulate what they read. Feverish or resting patients should not read...
...predicted that the "feverish task of attempting in a few years to cram facts enough into a child's head to last him for a lifetime" will within the oncoming generation be abandoned. The new education will help the child to make the most of its life as a child. And it will treat every period of life in the same way aiding the man who has "put away childish things" to make the most of himself. One hundred thousand men and women are now taking home study courses offered by nearly 150 colleges and universities. A recent study...
Three puffy-faced, feverish children caused great concern near Panama City last week. They were the first cases seen in that region of a tropical disease variously called Barber Bug Fever, Chagas' Disease, Brazilian Trypanosomiasis. The disease spreads very fast. Victims who do not die become sleepy idiots...
...Pressure. . . . The feverish, nationwide struggle to complete the Five-Year Plan. . . . 46,651,000 tons of Soviet coal mined this year, an increase of 7,000,000 tons over last year. . . . Marvelous, but somewhat short of the Plan...