Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene of Dr. Raney's operation is the sympathetic nervous system, an intricate barbwire fence of delicate nerves which control such involuntary functions as digesting, blushing, sweating, weeping, vomiting. Held in dynamic balance by the restraining influence of the "parasympathetic nervous system," the sympathetic system steams up when the...
"Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit...
Last week the London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I...
Result: By last week some 200,000 of the 1,220,000 évacués had gone back to their city homes. There, with all schools closed, they ran wild in the streets. The Catholic Herald estimated there were 100,000 at large in London. While the press regarded...
This autumn, with a real war emergency at hand, Johnson tried again. Through his War Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old...