Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times and among all peoples, there can be but little doubt that headache would attain this unenviable distinction," wrote Columbia University's Professor Henry Alsop Riley last week.* Therewith he presented a 116-page summary of what is known about "the most baffling and dramatic form of pain in the head"- migraine. Professor Riley and a half-dozen other able investigators† are trying to solve the problem, with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation paying the expenses of the study. Professor Ludwig Kast of New York Post-Graduate Medical School is coordinating their work...
...PAIN (Wellesley) Richard Martin...
Once, for a pal in the R. A. F., Shaw filled in this personal report: "Favorite color: scarlet. Favorite dish: bread & water. Favorite musician: Mozart. Favorite author: Wm. Morris. Favorite character in history: Nil. Favorite place: London. Greatest pleasure: sleep. Greatest pain: noise. Greatest fear: animal spirits. Greatest wish: to be forgotten of my friends...
...scared all the men away. By some talent worth any amount of cleverness, Authoress Whipple has made old Heroine Louisa the kind of human being that human beings instinctively, almost unanimously admire. " 'Mmmm,' said Charles. 'The French have an expression "Bon comme le pain." When I heard it, I thought of you. You're good, like bread; you're essential, you know. Mother. The world couldn't get on without people like you.'" Readers of Greenbanks will close the book with a grateful nod, admit that Charles was absolutely right...
...tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like barks. Professor Adrian understands the noises. A slow, long continued series of barks, for example, may indicate the pain of a burn or ulcer...