Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease...
...firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came the pinkish reflection of the midnight oil, on its checks were shadowed the black pouches of overwork. Before the figure stood a woman: "Why, then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. What need we fear, who knows it?" With these words she vanished. The gabardined figure shrank. In her place there crouched an old man, dragging one of his withered limbs: "It is not resentment...
Told Administrator Johnson, drawn and puffy-eyed from overwork, that if he did not take a vacation he would be fired...
...recommendation that the number of needy men admitted to college be limited in order to lighten the burden of worry and overwork which is now being carried by students is made today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, secretary for Student Employment, in an article appearing in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "College and the Poor Boy." By the extension of such a plan of limitation, he believes that although the gap between public and private institutions of higher learning may be widened, the state universities may be brought to introduce a large number of practical courses for those...
Harold F. Ritchie was 52 when he died. Appendicitis was the immediate cause, but it was really overwork that did it. He talked day and night, sat up till 4 a. m. if he could get a buyer to listen to him, never walked, played golf, or took any form of exercise, ate only when he happened to think of it (and then in huge quantities). Though he was a devoted family man, he spent less time at home than he did traveling. An air trip around South America to look at his agencies was a routine matter; he once...