Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Place Vendôme to the Etoile, along the avenues and down the alleys where Paris couturiers have their lairs and set the world's fashions, all was feverish activity last week. U. S. department store buyers and fashion reporters, newsgatherers and ladies of the haute monde scurried from one fashion house to the next, for it was the official Fall Opening. They and the waiting world were eager to learn what the well-dressed woman must wear for the next six months...
...Feverish rats and rabbits scamper about the Research Laboratory of General Electric Co.. Schenectady. N. Y. No common fever but one artificially induced, by short-length ether waves, makes them suffer...
...examinations draw nearer, there comes the usual hectic period of feverish study in the small hours with the aid of large quantities of coffee and cigarettes, and despite ardent, resolutions to the contrary this situation seems to be practically unavoidable. Nor can it be said that the fault lies wholly in the weakness of the resolve...