Word: franticness
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That night Holter went home and stared at his drawing board. He drew the design of a valve with two fins that opened and shut like the gates of a canal lock. But what to make it of? Holter began a frantic search for a suitable material. He worked evenings and weekends, got only three or four hours' sleep a night. The valve had to be durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping...
Farnworth, in an essay for a college and school association, called "Success and Failure as Viewed by the College Psychiatrist" has characterized the college years as ones of tension between biological maturity and the normal impossibility of marriage, of possibly frantic efforts to belong to the new college society, and of uncertainty, as well as ferment, of ideas...
...midst of Republican "prosperity," the country produced the all-time record national debt of 275 billion dollars, greater than any during the Second World War. Although the debt is necessary, an abnormally high debt behind great government spending is no base for the national economy. Frantic hacking at the Federal budget and expense juggling failed to reduce that colossal figure by any substantial amount...
...pessimistic finding is that the new regime can gain much more solid popular support if it supplies more consumer goods and better housing, eases up on the terror, makes some concessions to the peasants, and relieves somewhat the frantic pace at which all the population has been driven...
...before the official announcement, had tipped off Wall Street about the board's decision to award New England's little Northeast Airlines a lucrative New York-Miami air route. As a result, Northeast stock soared from 9½ to 12½ in a single day's frantic trading (TIME, Aug. 20). For a while it looked as though Lawyer Ruppar, who had bought 1,000 shares of Northeast stock, was the culprit...