Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score was 2 to 0 for Chicago. Side-whiskered Guy Bush, who looks like a nervous villain in a melodrama, had been through the Yankee line-up once, pitching carefully, without allowing a hit. At the start of the fourth. Bush walked Combs. made Scwell ground out, frowned darkly when Ruth hit a whistling single to right. Gehrig, stamping his feet on the caked dust, waited till the count was two balls and two strikes. His bat met the next pitch, a Bush screwball, squarely. The ball traveled into the screaming right field bleachers for a homerun...
...Thomas Carlyle panegyrized and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche thundered, Alfred Adler demonstrates the Ego. Early this century he was a disciple of great Sigmund Freud, used to join with other disciples at the Freud home. Psychoanalysis was a new, amazing tool which Dr. Freud invented to analyze hysteria, mental kinks, nervous twists of all sorts. Most of the company agreed with Dr. Freud's pontifical decision that suppression was the main source of neuroses...
...finalists were both nervous as they started out in the morning. On the first hole Somerville half-topped his first drive, faded a spoon. Goodman topped his second shot. Somerville topped his drive on the second tee. Steadying down, they were all square at the turn, but at the end of the first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant...
...instant the woman realized that instead of two grains of novocaine she had dispensed two grams, which is 15 times as potent, she became ''highly nervous." Though the coroner pronounced the three deaths accidental. Miss Viall, 35, kept wanting to kill herself...
...Marriage seems to be no sedative for neurotics. Married couples are distinctly more "nervous" than university undergraduates. A first baby calms the husband, excites the wife. Couples with three or more children are better balanced than couples with less children.?Dr. Raymond Royce Willoughby, Clark University...