Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...
...employer's permission. This is an offense under the "Masters and Servants Act." Most offenders are female domestic servants, most charges are laid by white housewives. (Sometimes as a good excuse for not paying the servant her monthly wages, desertion may be forced on the servant by deliberate overwork. If the servant objects, that is "impertinence," which is also a statutory offense -for Negroes...
...must get out of Cambridge in order to escape his responsibilities or simply to relax from overwork, facilites for almost anything can be found within a few hour's drive...
...stage, Joan Blondell heads an extensive stage show. Peggy Ryan and Ray MacDonald present a number of cute dance routines and Bert Wheeler gives an amusing recitation of "What is a Boy!" Singer Eddie Fisher does remarkable things with a voice worn thin by overwork--or emotion. Hank Ladd and the Marino Sisters, three acrobats with plenty of bounce to the ounce, round out the cast...
...Pray Without Ceasing." Smart was driven to distraction by overwork and financial worries as early as his Cambridge days, and tried to earn money from his writing. In one play, noted a contemporary, "He acts five Parts himself, & is only sorry, he can't do all the rest, he has also advertised a Collection of Odes; & [as] for his Vanity & Faculty of Lyeing, they are come to their full Maturity, all this . . . must come to a Jayl, or Bedlam...