Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached down slowly beside his chair to feel for a bit of pottery and coughed. "When I graduated there were no fountains. There were pretty girls, and beer, and nervous youths, and expansive fathers, and happy mothers, and honorary degrees--but," and the voice trailed off--"there were no fountains...
...Carlson was born to a healthy Minnesota seamstress and a factory stoker. As often occurs, something had happened to his brain. Professor Bronson Crothers, Harvard neurologist & pediatrician, tells his students: "It is probable that injury of the central nervous system during birth, or immediately thereafter, accounts for more than half of the deaths of viable babies. Furthermore, it is almost certain that such injuries are responsible for the disability of more children suffering from organic diseases of the nervous system than any other single etiologic factor except infantile paralysis...
...occasions, these reactions may not be apparent, or may be limited to only one or two muscle groups, while on others the entire body musculature is thrown into a chaos of writhing movements with such violence that one would think the entire store of volitional impulses within the central nervous system had been set loose. Yet, as long as the mentality remains intact, the possibilities of re-education are unlimited...
...each year); reviews of his books (measured by inches); and the society of interesting people. After a party in London he writes: "This sort of thing is the real reward for having written a few decent books." But there were other, less pleasant rewards-headaches, insomnia, liver trouble, nervous exhaustion. At some times it "occurs" to him that he is "almost happy." At other times he writes: "Habit of work is growing on me. I could get into the way of going to my desk as a man goes to whiskey, or rather to chloral." The struggle within...
...last week's hearing Banker Durant, face white, lips twitching, testified in a nervous voice regarding this interview. Spectators grew restless at the obvious suffering he was going through. Nerves almost cracked when on the street outside a tinnish German band struck up. Many times Banker Durant failed to remember things, always insisted that he and his partners had faith in Kreuger up to the time of his death...