Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President began work on his speech of acceptance, but interruptions were frequent, as politician after politician stepped in for a word...
...also found that from the ages of 10 to 20, patients who later have high blood pressure are likely to be nervous, temperamental; have frequent nose bleeds, headaches, cold, sweaty hands; flushing, blushing and extreme sensitiveness. More than 42% of 300 patients with high blood pressure had had such symptoms. These facts seem to suggest that physicians and parents should watch carefully over younger members of families in which high blood pressure is common, and try to protect the growing child against the stresses and strains that seem to be important in producing hypertension...
CREOLE SKETCHES-Lafcadio Hearn- Houghton ($2.00). In this collection of early notes about New Orleans, lovely, sleepy "City of Dreams," are frequent bits of that exquisite phrasing and wayward charm for which Hearn was later famed. The sketches appeared in The New Orleans Item when the unkempt, erratic and friendless young genius was eking out his early years doing hack newspaper work and living on the "ultra-canal" side of the city. There are vivid, shimmering bits of description and portraiture, some humorous, some elusively lovely and redolent of the quaint, exotic charm of the picturesque old city...
...visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...
...minutes over Canadian soil; then the Shenandoah encountered (without difficulty) a heavy fog drifting over Buffalo from Lake Erie. Over Canaseraga, N. Y., the dirigible ran into a thunderstorm, and great flashes of lightning lit up the huge and gleaming bulk at frequent intervals. The dirigible dodged the thunderstorm with ease, though she had to leave her course over the Erie Railway and to retrace her route to the North for a while...