Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...Atlanta, Ga., Negro Jeff Davis was shot in the stomach, complained of the pain. Physicians decided to operate. Before they found the bullet they were seeking, they found four other, old ones...
...legged Brand A. Scott, vice president of the West Virginia Mine Workers' Union, last week set before a special Senate committee initiating an inquiry into unemployment insurance. Witness Scott declared that West Virginia miners work under "yellow-dog" contracts which prohibit their joining a labor union on pain of dismissal. Against him, he said, were pending 121 court injunctions to bar him from unionizing in West Virginia coal fields. Said he: "These people live under a state of terrorism. This is forced labor, . . . We want work at an American wage or unemployment insurance benefits on an American standard...
...suggestion that hunting saves the stag from dying 'in old age of starvation from loss of teeth'-to accept that might be to run the risk of being invited to hunt old-age pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because 'he is a selfish...
...this confusion would be simply to say 'Our object is to let trade relations ride,' that is, give them up, let them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...