Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiation on the atoms of plants. Atoms are the vehicles that are filled with solar radiance as so many coiled springs. These countless atomfuls of energy are taken in as food. This life-sustaining radiation releases electrical currents for the body's electrical circuit or nervous system. Once in us, these tense vehicles, the atoms, are discharged in our protoplasm, the radiance furnishing new chemical energy, new electric currents. So what we eat is quanta of radiation and currents of action...
Except for the week of Bacon's illness, the stern four nucleus of the great 1930 Freshman crew have been kept intact, and there are still eight powerful oarsmen in the Varsity shell. Their rowing, however, has been rough, tense, and nervous, and a certain amount of checking and dousing has been the result. It is too easy to see that there is plenty of power in the boat; there is lost that smoothness and fineness of oarsmanship which made the former Freshman boat move almost effortlessly, and which gave the observer the impression that it possessed almost limitless hidden...
...post last week, Head Play with Jockey Harry Fisher up was nervous. The starter tried to quiet him. then moved him to the outside, which meant an extra 30 ft. to run. It seemed to make very little difference. Fisher got his horse away fast, crossed over to the inside and took the lead going round the first turn. At the half mile, he broke away from the field to a lead of more than a length. Ladysman tried to keep up but could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader...
...into metal. But deflation ground on. In banks which failed to reopen was tied up some $4,000,000,000. Government economies to balance the budget reduced private spending. Unemployment rose to 13,000,000. The fear of riots and social unrest in Cleveland and Detroit kept Washington on nervous edge...
...thought of Hitler makes Frenchmen nervous as witches. Last week many a Parisian caught sight of an automobile whizzing by with what looked like the Nazi swastika flag. When they spotted a second and a third, they concluded that German Nazis were swarming into Paris. They rushed to telephones and babbled their information to the police. Then they went out into the street ready to tear apart the next Nazi automobile they saw. Meanwhile Paris police began to look for the mysterious Nazi cars...