Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such leakage occurs in glaucomatous eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...time she leaned over the scrubbing bucket, until she dropped asleep like someone struck down by a blow, but she could find no peace. A general strike, deeper worries over money, nagging delays and disappointments piled heavier burdens upon her. demoralized the shaken Fury household. There remained one last pain that Peter could cause her to break her heart. She tried to keep him from her estranged son Desmond, fearing Desmond's mockery. The strike threw them together, and Peter fell in love with his brother's wife. The strike ended, but not Mrs. Fury's agony...
Nothing particular happened until June 21 when Brother Al got a toothache. He stood the pain for four days, then lanced the abscessed tooth himself with the aid of radio instructions from a local dentist. The Key Brothers' next difficulty came on June 25 when they were warned that the right-hand landing wheel had gradually deflated, making an eventual landing precarious...
...Elizabeth Condit Gates who, like the heroine of many a popular romance, fell high-mindedly in love with her husband's best friend. Author Baldwin takes many liberties with the conventions of sentimental fiction: 1) in showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony at her son's disapproval of her course; 3) living beyond the usual happy ending of remarriage and accepting her quota of human doubts and regrets...
...stop to "these celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits got into his scalp, fled at dawn "with a slight hissing sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg made almost daily excursions through Heaven and Hell, heard the meaning of the Scriptures expounded by angels, spirits...