Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovered in 1910 by Drs. H. H. Dale and H. Barger, benzedrine sulfate became known to the medical world as a strong stimulant to the central nervous system. This year and last it has been used by a few students in the University prior to the examination period as a cure for fatigue and as a means to increased mental efficiency. To discourage the practice Arlie V. Bock, M.D., Ph.D., Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, now in charge of the Hygiene Department has issued the following statement...
...lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes and stand rigid, growling for a whole hour. In those hours even placing an apple on Achilles' nose failed to make him stir...
...Philadelphia last week, Temple University's Track Coach Ben Ogden proposed an innovation to enable pole-vaulters to avoid "jarring their nervous system when they land on the ground": a net, like those used by circus trapezists, stretched seven feet above the ground, to catch them on the way down...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...