Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with time on his hands. This time he gives to his career as a broadcaster. In 1933, with Arde Bulova, he bought station WAAM (Newark), consolidated with station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi drivers...
Through Chicago streets into sheds in his South Side lumberyard Mr. Meitus proudly led a nervous procession of 9 monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms...
...Professor Pavlov's dogs was taught that a circular light flashed on a screen meant food, that an elliptical light meant none. Then the ellipse was gradually rounded out until it was nearly circular, but no food. This psychological double-cross sent the dog into a nervous state called traumatic neurosis, from which he had to be rescued by rest and daily rectal instillations of bromides. An obedient motorist is conditioned to stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just...
...time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired. In the big, happy finale, superpressagent Wright Boyes (a ringer for Dexter Fellows) sends them off with good wishes for a long life of headlining with fine medium-sized...
...psychiatrist, Donald Wilson Hastings, secured his M.D. at Wisconsin University in 1934 While his specialized training came from the Penn. Hospital for mental and Nervous Diseases and the Institute of the Penn, Hospital. In addition he was an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania...