Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than half the hospital's 3,500 patients last year suffered from stuttering, scientifically known as dysphemia. It is found in nervous, high-strung persons, may be caused, according to some speech experts, by a slight injury to the hypothalamic area in the base of the brain. The injury is aggravated by psychological troubles such as shocks, accidents, unhappy home life. A large proportion of twins are stutterers; there is also a close correlation between left-handedness or am bidexterity and stuttering...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
...Fully half of Harlem's youngsters are known to its schoolteachers as "door-key children." because their parents, away from home all day, turn them loose each morning with the keys to their apartments strung around their necks. They are apt to run wild in the streets and even use their apartments for immoral rendezvous...
Though the University of Texas is out of the running, the Lone Star State, which raises bumper crops of footballers, has still another candidate for the Rose Bowl: Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College.Last week the Aggies, in trampling Rice 19-to-6 strung up their eighthvictory in a row, raised their season's scoring total to 253 points (to 23 for their opponents). Next week the Aggies meet Texas in the big game of the Southwest...
...show itself is no extravaganza with bevies of beauties pouring out of cornucopias. It is an intimate musical comedy strung on an adequately comic story of U.S. Army rookies, and glittering at intervals with the shining beads of Astaire's exhilarating, airy acrobatics accompanied by Rita Hayworth's lambent looks and legs...