Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situations crop up in the fundraising business. Once Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams when they happened to print part of the college song. The Mountains, in a solicitation letter. That drew a nice flutter of checks. Horace Dutton Taft wanted to raise $2,000,000 for Taft School but it was pointed out to him that the school was his private property. Headmaster Taft generously deeded the school to his trustees and Tamblyn went ahead with the drive...
...flutter with the chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert...
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...
Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...
...themselves to caricature. The Joe College freshman; the cross Dean, a perfect heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...