Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that of a man who went 231 hours-about 9½ days-with almost no sleep.* Loss of sleep can produce complete insensibility to noise and a high degree of anesthesia to pain...
...which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
...spite of the temporary loss of Chaco, Varsity stroke, the outcome of the Compton Cup regatta with M.I.T. next Saturday is viewed by Nowell Boat House habitues with optimism, Chaco, due to a cold, was unable to set the beat yesterday and Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...
Causes: Detestation of propeller noise, fear of falling, fear of crashing, fear of seeing mangled bodies, fear of losing jobs, deflation of ego, loss of self-respect, fear of social degradation, anxiety for welfare of family. Dr. Armstrong thinks flying injures the actual tissues of the brain. He is trying to demonstrate this hypothesis by rattling rats in baskets until they go crazy, then examining their brains under the microscope...
...that is so," countered President Milburn, "the loss is taken up elsewhere because our sales show an increase...