Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsman: The photographers are getting nervous to get a picture...
Jammed to suffocation last week was the Union's rather dingy hall, as there rose to make his maiden speech, a youth (18 years) of pink and white complexion, a nervous but determined fledgling, Randolph Churchill...
...year Chancellor of the Exchequer. And all are, of course, descendants of that ruthless and super-successful general, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Stage-fright might well grip anyone expected to get up and talk like either Lord Randolph or "Winnie," but the boy seemed only a little nervous, launched boldly into a slashing philippic against the Labor Government's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME...
...essential to life. Its destruction causes death in from 24 to 48 hours. Apparently it secretes a special hormone which has not yet been identified. If its hormone does not exist, some substance like a hormone profoundly affects the whole body. It has sharp effect on the sympathetic nervous system and a profound effect on the genital apparatus. Overgrowth of the cortex is associated with precocious sexual development. Such overgrowth accounts for those rare cases where an exuberant girl changes into a shy boy with boyish hair on face, limbs and body, slim buttocks and thighs and certain internal atrophies...
...Sonja Henie had come from Norway and had been practicing in Manhattan for five weeks in preparation for her five minutes (TIME, Jan. 20). As she ran through the gate and started diagonally across the ice in the sprint that gave her speed it was clear that she was nervous. Once she slipped, brushed the ice with her fingertips, caught her balance, smiled and flushed, and after that she was at ease. Her whirls, waltzes, glides and rockers, executed to such tunes as "Over the Waves" and "The Skaters" were technically perfect and filled with joy and grace. As expected...