Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days of black coffee and five hour intensive review sessions, when the academic rules everywhere supreme, the student who finds in the examination room, with its accompanying stamp of feet and prowling proctors, a nervous hazard is experiencing no new sensations...
...calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should have a doctor's attention...
...appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great...
Professor Heart Frederieq, of the University of Liege, Belgium, will speak on "Humoral Transmission in Nervous Action" in the Nash Lecture Room of the University Museum at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon...
Stirring Sleepers. To the beds of 18 young men was attached mechanism to record their every movement while sleeping. The most nervous subject stirred once every eight minutes. The most inert, once every 25 minutes. The average: 13 minutes between stirs. Purpose of the experiment: to discover the efficiency of beds, springs, mattresses, pillows.?H. M. Johnson and G. 'E. Weigand, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh...