Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with the insane, it is sometimes necessary to resort to the Binet-Féré method of fascination by which, if it is successful, complete automatism is induced. The subject is asked to look fixedly at the operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly at the subject's left eye, at the same time grasping his hands firmly. In a little while the operator's eye appears to shine brilliantly and the patient's expression becomes vacant. Dr. Cannon finds certain defects in this procedure: "If the patient is refractory...
...hesitate to use that awful word, and although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there are lots of sons who have been...
...place was to be found on no map, never had a post office, a church, or an incorporated government. Fifty years ago much of Hell burned down. Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen. Twelve years ago a real-estate firm acquired Hell, turned it into a tourist resort under the name Hi-Land Lake...
...usual at Cannes, Biarritz, Deauville and Dinard this year the same cars and the same women will barnstorm through weeks of automotive elegance. At each resort there is something called a "First Prize" which is given to a more or less standard U. S. car in the low or medium price class, after the real first and second prizes (the prix d'élégance and the prix d'honneur) have been won by cars in the $20,000 class...
...Government planned to appeal the Supreme Court decisions to the court of last resort, the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council in London; for Canada's Supreme Court is not supreme...