Word: overstraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heart disease and diabetes are also more common in the North than in the South. Reason: Northerners must work hard to generate body heat during long cold winters, often overstrain their energy centres. Diabetes, for example, is caused by break-down of the pancreas, an abdominal gland which secretes a hormone responsible for converting sugar into energy. Toxic goitre, which frequently accompanies diabetes, is caused by strain on the thyroid gland, which regulates energy production...
...London's great Gothic Guildhall, Sir Austen Chamberlain rose last week to make a speech defending the League of Nations. 'The joint responsibility of the civilized world is embodied in the League," said he. "But we must first educate public opinion, so the League does not overstrain its strength...
Disarmament. In Geneva, the League's moribund Disarmament Conference was most careful not to overstrain its strength last week. The steering committee met briefly, adjourned until April 30, arranged that the full Conference should reassemble May 23. None too cheerful was the President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson: "Now in almost all the leading countries, armament budgets are beginning to increase. Those contemptuous of the whole idea of disarmament through collective security say we had better cut our losses and go home, and urge us indeed to go back to international anarchy. But you who are charged with...
...typical t.b. girl, reported Miss Nicholson "is not the girl who gads about drinking, smoking, and concentrating on wild parties until the small hours of the morning. She is not a diet faddist, nor does she overstrain herself in athletics. Neither is she a down-trodden factory worker from the slums. She is apt to be the third in a family of five children, one of whom died fairly young. Her father is engaged in some form of manufacturing or mechanical industry and her mother does not work outside the home. The family's income is in the neighborhood...
...great majority of the mental specialists at the convention treated the controversy as an amusing byplay to their serious business of telling each other their pet methods of ameliorating and preventing psychoses. And their methods were not very new. The tenor of most was that the individual must not overstrain his brain, that the more he knows about his mental workings the better for himself and for society...