Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Country-wide debate on Prohibition last week moved to new ground when the subject upcropped without warning before the American Medical Association meeting at Portland, Ore. (see p. 37). Heretofore at A. M. A. conventions, as at the gatherings of most other non-political organizations, liquor discussions have been avoided. At their Washington meeting two years ago, A. M. A. officers rigorously suppressed a Prohibition flare-up on the convention floor...
Politicians were less interested in the subject of the vote than its effect. It was the first time that the Liberals, who voted with the Government, had voted unanimously since the War. Experts prophesied a much longer Labor reign than the two years Premier MacDonald had asked...
...feel that this is a subject every American should thoughtfully consider...
...before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent to an insane asylum-for I am sure a psychiatrist's services would straighten him out. Incidentally, there are two fine short stories which have been written on the subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh Short Stories for 1923; the other, by one Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned...
...trap the heart's action current they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep...