Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present tutors are over-worked, nervous, unsure of advancement because a lack of funds limits the number of highly paid positions open. With the above change, schedules would be lightened and the tension would be removed partially. To remove completely this tension, tenure in office should be guaranteed by longer appointments. All tutors should be given a preliminary contract guaranteeing two years of work; at the conclusion of this period they should either be dismissed or given a five year, or longer, appointment. This would remove entirely the insecurity which plagues tutors at present and would allow them adequate time...
...brought the match to an all-even finish by holing two long putts on the 16th and 17th greens. In her singles match Mrs. Vare conquered British Champion Wanda Morgan 3 and 2. Mrs. Crews not only won her singles but her foursome match as well. Miss Berg, so nervous that she could not even see the hole when she prepared to putt, lost in the singles, sorely disappointed spectators and newshawks who had ballyhooed her as a links prodigy...
...still on a small salary, and Harvard cannot throw them into the street. Meantime, realizing this situation, tutors and section men worry about their future. The calibre of their work of necessity drops because of insecurity and continual doubt; they are over-tired, inefficient; nervous breakdowns are not unknown...
...wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute diseases have almost died...
Said Boston's Dr. Bland: "The disease is far more prevalent among males than among females. The former, however, appear to survive more frequently the acute attack and also to live longer thereafter. In our experience prolonged nervous tension directly related to professional or business responsibility appears to be the most important single contributing factor. ' Added Manhattan's Drs. Master, Jaffe & Dack: "The ages of the patients studied ranged between 27 and 87 years. The average was 54 years, both for men and women. The average age of those who died was 57 years...