Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Medical Association has developed an acute case of nervous indigestion ever since depression knocked doctors off their economic feet. Few of the 200 and more schemes which doctors have invented to earn an honest dollar have sat well with A. M. A. None has proved more revolting to that potent national body than the prepayment plan which Milwaukee's Drs. John Edward Rueth, 46, Adam Lee Curtin, 49, and Herbert Carl Dallwig, 45, recently instituted...
...circus, an indoor "lion hunt" with 100 lions, and a show called "The Jungle at Midnight," with denizens of the Pare de Vincennes Zoo under flood lights. When 300,000 people visited Dickson's Jungle in the first eight nights, the authorities decided it made the animals nervous, stopped the show. Promoter Dickson finds London crowds the most tractable in Europe, Paris crowds the most excitable. In the Palais des Sports, to prevent a recurrence of the wine bottle incident, a net can be lowered around the arena to protect occupants from injury by spectators...
...advanced by waiters is that they do sufficient exercise in the process of serving meals; a calculation shows that waiters walk 20 miles and lift 10 foot-tons per week. According to Dr. Bock, however, this is the wrong type of exercise, and does not supply the mental and nervous relaxation which is one of the principal objects of the requirement. Further, the present program offers "expert guidance by coaches in developing bodily skills, opens avenues for wider acquaintances, and fosters the spirit of cooperation...
...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...
Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...