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According to his theory, injury to any part of the body also injures local nerves and sends messages of pain to the brain to protect the injured part. The brain sends messages down the spinal cord to nerves of the muscles at the site of injury. A hurt fist will clench, a face twist, a foot limp. These messages may accumulate if the injury is very great or persistent. This accumulation of nerve impulses may itself irritate nerves, causing useless and damaging excess pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Venom for Pain | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose in his designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gauguin Prints | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 30; by Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 45; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: On various occasions he had 1) knocked her down, 2) broken her wrist, 3) hit her with his fist after a dance; been "exceedingly unpleasant.'' Same day, driving an automobile near Auxonne, France, Fiermonte smashed into a tree. Of his three women companions, one. an American girl, Marion Whitworth. was hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...ever seeking happiness, if the solidarity of all Catholics of the world could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism's enemies-"the lugubrious array of the militant godless, shaking the clenched fist of anti-Christ." Cried he: "Where now are Herod and Pilate, Nero and Diocletian, and Julian the Apostate, and all the persecutors of the First Century? St. Ambrose replies: 'The Christians who have been massacred have won the victory; the vanquished were their persecutors.' Ashes and dust are the enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eucharist in Budapest | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Lexington. Ky.. President Gilmour Nunn of American Broadcasting Co. revealed that, at a Kentucky Derby party, Elliott Roosevelt had challenged a stranger to a fist fight for remarks that "besmirched the President's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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