Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hypnotist can also induce emotional states that carry over into consciousness. He can tell Sam Brown that his good friend Oswald Schimmelpilz insulted him. After repeating this good news during several hypnoses Sam will have become convinced and, the first time he sees his good friend Oswald, will probably sock him on the nose...
...that multiply in the intestines. A diet of lean meat only was tried but had to be given up because of digestive upsets. Was this be cause of too great an accumulation of putrefactive bacteria in the intestine? Only a study of the intestinal conditions during this period will tell, and they have not yet been published...
Malarial fever has been used for many years in the U. S. and Europe in an attempt to cure general paresis. Many of the paretics inoculated with malaria have improved, but since there are occasional spontaneous but temporary improvements in this disease, it is still a little early to tell just what part the malaria has played. The outlook seems most favorable however...
...tell him, Mr. Fixit. I stutter." This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would...
...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...