Word: nauseousness
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...metropolitan photomen had their first inning yesterday afternoon when F. D. R. Jr.'s luggage was trundled into Weld Hall. There is, one must admit, something nauseous about this promptitude, something reminiscent of all the vapid press nonsense which accompanied John Coolidge and Allan Hoover to the Business School in 1929. When Florence Trumbull said that John was not to drive a car, when H. H. crisped the wires to warn Allan against the talkies, a gawpish public moved in. Even in those days it was all very unpleasant. Perhaps those Spanish trunk labels hold little promise after...
...aerials of radio systems, send a 30-metre high frequency wave through the patient.* In 30 minutes his temperature rises to 105° or 106° F. He sweats, germs within him begin to die, injured tissues and nerves begin to heal. Profuse sweating weakens the patient. He feels nauseous, vomits, has cramps, twitches. Attendants stop all this by giving the patient plenty of salty water. The sweating causes another inconvenience. The healing radio waves collect in the sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis...
...dodo on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius when they reached there in 1505. The sailors considered the dodo a very stupid bird (doudo is Portuguese for stupid, foolish). It was larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very few of its feathers. But enough...
...barren of reputable advertising despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn...
...army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) is a sluggish, fat, green thing striped with a nauseous yellow. Army cutworms march on wheatfields in squadrons. Each soldier worm chooses his spear of wheat. Carefully he cuts it down, ignores the grain, devours the root, moves on to the next spear. An army of worms cuts a clean swath across any field it enters, then cuts another swath. A listener can hear the concerted champing of their mandibles...