Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons...
...Flex tired muscles and keep them tense for several seconds to refresh them. They become fit for another round of fighting or another spurt of running in a much shorter time than if permitted to relax or if stimulated with a hypodermic injection of adrenalin. The reinvigoration is due, theorized Cornell's Drs. S. A. Guttman, R. G. Horton and Davis Truxton Wilber, to either: 1) the release of a potent chemical, acetylcholine, by nerve ends in the tired muscles, or; 2) a sudden excess of calcium in those muscles...
When the week was over and all these political palaverings were done. Franklin Roosevelt motored down to Annapolis to relax aboard the Potomac for a cruise down Chesapeake Bay in company with Dr. Stanley High, sponsor of the Good Neighbor League, lately hired from National Broadcasting Co. to win the church vote for Roosevelt...
Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...
...Challenger passengers, coach as well as tourist, there will be a registered trained nurse, porter service, free drinking cups and free pillows day or night. Women who do not have the price of a tourist Pullman may ride in Women's De Luxe Coaches, relax in a Ladies' Lounge. On the Limited, a passenger would have a hard time eating for less than...