Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another is in the New School for Social Research. The third and best known, a huge panorama painted for the Indiana building at the Century of Progress Fair, is now stored in an Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana as revivalists, bootleggers, stevedores, politicians, soda clerks...
...London the whisper ran down Whitehall that Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin had, with bull-like, bumbling, British common sense, suddenly decided that His Majesty's Government must do the obvious and had carried all before him by brushing aside the nervous scruples of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Once again the intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar...
...Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence," cracked back Mr. Richberg, "there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled: 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
...This is the important thing. The colloid chemist now steps in where medical men leave off. Sodium rhodanate will minimize the effects of worry and will decrease the effects of nervous breakdowns not caused by pathological conditions. This drug increases the resistance of the living organism to infection by inducing better health. Drugs of this type will not cure progressive lesions and sclerotic conditions; but they will retard the aging of the colloids of the body...