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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep behind him. This William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin in spirit to the Roosevelt New Deal and is always advocating in his newspaper that Mr. Roosevelt do something or say something epochal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: For Defense | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...bother to nominate a Man of the Year this December? Any man who can throw the whole world into a state of nervous tension, change the map of the European Continent, persecute thousands of people, and still come through without actual declared war. should win this coveted title without benefit of competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Overnight, Priestley-who had never acted before-stepped into the part, played a drunken Yorkshire photographer so nimbly that he boomed the show from drowsy success to smash hit. After his first performance Priestley confessed he had not been so nervous in 23 years: "My trouble was I didn't know the lines. You see, I wrote them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...make individuals conscious of this process, teach them that a word or symbol is not identical with the object it represents, slow up their automatic, conditioned responses to symbols. The concept of "identity," in Korzybski's view, is responsible for mankind's "false knowledge," harmful nervous reactions (e.g., a child who hates all men because it is mistreated by its father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: General Semantics | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...waiter named Gustl "suffered from a mild nervous disorder," which consisted of brushing the back of his hand (become as sensitive as fingertips) against the hips of women guests. Gustl particularly loved Jewish weddings, "there was such wonderful material for his hobby," so Ludwig, who by then had risen to assistant banquet manager, always gave him "stations with round women, and it was charming to see how he could not do enough for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problem Child | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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