Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus was divided-a part of it in each of the rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...
...investigators of the U. S. Health Department decided that encephalitis is "a specific disease and must be caused by a specific living virus which has a specific affinity for the central nervous system." It is sui generis. The virus eludes discovery...
...also found that from the ages of 10 to 20, patients who later have high blood pressure are likely to be nervous, temperamental; have frequent nose bleeds, headaches, cold, sweaty hands; flushing, blushing and extreme sensitiveness. More than 42% of 300 patients with high blood pressure had had such symptoms. These facts seem to suggest that physicians and parents should watch carefully over younger members of families in which high blood pressure is common, and try to protect the growing child against the stresses and strains that seem to be important in producing hypertension...
...short, wiry, nervous, eager, tremendously serious. I have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax...
...slender-wristed one's score was 286 and the last difficult hole was before him, a hole with a dear little windswept pond in front, a pond in which the last player's ball had found its watery grave, a wind that was decidedly annoying. He was a bit nervous...