Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the diseases come not from poor health but from the nervous strain of modern living, he remarked...
...them in the South because of greater exposure to the germs from walking barefoot. Although 70% of tetanus cases are fatal, the disease can usually be prevented by injections of tetanus antitoxin given right after a wound has been dressed. But once the disease gets to the central nervous system, tetanus antitoxin does little good...
Most revealing index of the nervous condition of a nation lies in sales records of sleeping powders. Last fortnight an unnamed Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph and Post showed that the fiery speeches of Adolf Hitler were giving Germans the jitters, keeping them awake all night. The rise in sales of German sleeping powders during the last two years, he wrote, has been "phenomenal...
Here is a perfect example of the kind of thing that drives competent educational authorities toward nervous breakdowns. On the one hand, a basic reality of education is recognized as needing more attention, and that attention is given it. On the other, an institution purporting to train teachers acts on the assumption that the primary tasks of education have been conquered so effectively that the profession may now be indulged in recreational side issues...
There are other explanations-that Prohibition gave coffee drinking a big boost, that high-pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...