Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This...
...winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
...sped the limousine to "Little Moscow." There the red fires of communism, which burned brightly a year ago, have been quenched by black hunger. Cowed communists cheered royalty. Suddenly the drab, depressing scene was enlivened as a motor hired by several press correspondents rattled up. They wanted Edward of Wales to meet his challenger?Frank McKay. Working fast they had found Old Frank in a neighboring village, ordering a coffin for his wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank...
...half, with periods of rest be tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much greater than when the sugar content is high. Therein may be partial explanation for loss of appetite after candy eating. But why, candy-eaters might ask, do cigaret-smokers lack good appetites...
...Carlson conclusion: "Modern civilization seems to be breeding a race which lacks the normal hunger mechanism...