Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a slick Manhattan lawyer arrives in Mandrake Falls, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the village poet, receives his good news without removing from his lips the tuba which he plays in stress or inspiration. This is a characteristic reaction. It provides the key to his later behavior when, installed in his uncle's Manhattan mansion and bored by the task of humbling smart alecks who mistake his lack of polish for absence of wit, he finds recreation in feeding doughnuts to cab horses, chasing fire engines and sliding down the marble banisters...
...news by describing the symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
Births. Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
...Shall I also stress," continued the Foreign Minister, "how much I endeavored-and how much I rejoiced in so doing-to prepare for reconstitution of the pacific front of Stresa!"-i. e. the British-French-Italian decision, with Benito Mussolini as host at Stresa, to stand together against Germany's rupture at that time of the Treaty of Versailles by rearming in violation of its terms (TIME, April...
Money. U. S. Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor was pleased to report to President Roosevelt last week that deposits in national banks were at an all-time high. Presumably Mr. O'Connor did not stress the point that these deposits had been inflated by Government borrowing and spending. Meantime, through the fiscal mysteries of central banking, the Treasury's huge March operations reduced excess bank reserves no less than $620,000,000 in one week. For the past few months the Treasury has been deliberately manipulating its balances to hold down excess reserves, the total last...