Word: ingrownness
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...remedy the danger of becoming too ingrown is hard to say. It would seem highly desirable for the "Guardian" to develop sufficient standing to be receiving articles from men outside the immediate vicinity of the Yard...
...peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers were the President's grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie Dall...
Yoga is an ingrown Hindu philosophical system whose object is fusing the "individual soul" with the "universal soul." Hindu yogins achieve that mystic goal after years of practice in emotional serenity and bodily control. The desired physical relaxation of yoga is achieved by means of contortions which "purify" the body. U. S. devotees of yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed...
...adrenalin in the system; insulin counteracts adrenalin. By accidentally overdosing them with insulin, Dr. Sakel shocked some of his morphine patients into comas. When they recovered from the "hypoglycemic shocks," their personalities were remarkably changed. Since the problem of curing a schizophrenic is the problem of shaking up his ingrown personality, Dr. Sakel tried shocking doses of insulin on Viennese schizophrenics. Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine he frankly declared that he does not know how and why his cure works, that it is indubitably effective. He has cured hundreds of cases of schizophrenia at his Vienna...
...Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing up on a farm in Carthage, Mo., he practiced for hours at a time a form of ingrown athletic solitaire which consisted of throwing stones at a barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save...