Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aging male that hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...
Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...National Academy of Design last week. The paintings were mostly mediocre landscapes and city scenes. Most of the exhibiting artists were unknown on 57th Street (Manhattan's Gallery Row), so their almost unfailing competence, learned in the country's burgeoning art schools, came as a slight shock to complacent Manhattanites...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
Fred's readjustment with his wife is not so easy. Under the shock of war, she has developed that reliable old case of amnesia. She doesn't know Fred MacMurray from Fred Allen, and has married a rich planter (Roland Culver), who believes in letting sleeping memories lie. Before he can get her back, MacMurray, who hardly seems up to it, has to shoot holes in a couple of heavies; Ava has to get a bang on the head to restore her memory; and Culver has to turn decent and tell her not to worry about...