Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present suffering either from the effects of football in some part of their anatomy, or have died too soon--usually of a "heart attack." This statement has the corroboration of no less a personage than the late Dr. 'Ed.' Nichols, who had charge of the physical and nervous condition of the Harvard players for many years, and whose statement can be verified by many living men, to the effect that, "nearly every man who has played varsity football at Harvard was either permanently injured at the time, or has suffered in later years from the development of a football injury...
...Professor Sherrington. Harvard's Harvey Gushing defers to him, his laboratory at Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington...
...black bears: Andy and his mate named, despite her sex, Amos. Last week the Redshaws were driving their pets home from advertising a cinema in Lockport. Near Albion their truck broke down. They tied the bears to a fence, started making repairs. A curious jabbering crowd gathered around the nervous animals. Small Peter Mathew Ryan, 5, wanted to pet Andy. . . . His father tore the clawed and bitten boy away, rushed him to a hospital where he soon died, a doctor said mostly of fright...
...organized a chorus, went around town to banquets and meetings drumming up enthusiasm for a permanent opera organization. He spent $20,000 first thing, fixing up the old Auditorium. He imported high-priced singers. At the end of his first season (1923) he went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. He had put on performances with the sketchiest possible rehearsals. He does the same thing now but he lets the rest of his staff worry. With subscribers back of him, he concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio...
...little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...