Word: stress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...arteriosclerosis comes mainly from excess amounts of cholesterol, a fatty substance that clogs the blood vessels. Last week, in a report, Dr. Herman T. Blumenthal, 43, laboratory director of St. Louis' Jewish Hospital, dealt prevailing opinion a rude shock. His thesis, supported by ten years of research: emotional stress is the main cause of arteriosclerosis. How does it work? Fluctuating blood pressure, working against the walls of the arteries, causes lesions and hardening...
...Moscow has announced that it shall be. (The Comet has an 8,000-ft. pressure in the cabin while flying at 40,000 ft.) Additional pressurizing to make the TU-104 comfortable for its passengers would require considerable redesigning and perhaps a damaging amount of additional weight and additional stress on the air frame...
Speaking to a group of military schoo] heads in Washington, Army Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor laid stress on the broad expanse of arts and sciences that must be understood by a future military leader. How knowledgeable is today's Army man? Confided General Taylor to a reporter later: "The profusion of skills and learning we have in the Army is astonishing. If I need a shortstop who plays the violin, I can find him some place...
Griffin joined three other governers in January to plan a campaign to fight segregation. The group drafted a statement to stress states' rights and oppose integration. The report emphasized the legality of "interposition" of states between the Federal government and citizens and the employment of all legal means to carry out the fight. Griffiffin is a political protege of former Georgia Governer Herman Talmadge...
...describes in repellent detail the last hours of a prosperous pimp, and introduces as ugly a set of murder suspects as the season has offered. The case is tackled by Inspector Schmidt of New York Homicide, whose homey habit of taking off his pinching shoes in moments of stress somehow makes the sordid details of the crime seem more wholesome...