Word: jangledness
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In the interim, rising prices, incidental disputes, and jangled nerves increase the difficulties of a solution. The strike is essentially a human protest against the ruthlessness of economic law. The English coal industry is suffering from that anathema of Thomas Carlyle, "overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed...
In Newark, N. J., a little man named Gustave Zobel, 70, stood in an artificial beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed...
"Speak for yourself, Thomas!" jangled Mr. Cook. Amid pandemoneum his measure was defeated.
Drilled in the technique of every Notre Dame play, in the very mannerisms of every Notre Dame backfield man, Princeton's sons went sanguinely into battle and found themselves facing-a team of substitutes. Abstractedly they wrangled through the first period, chafed with a black curiosity for what lay...
A ten-minute organ recital in the Harvard Chapel every morning before the ordeal of final examinations to quiet jangled nerves is not such a fanciful idea as it may sound to skeptical hard heads.