Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Medical School, told physicians meeting in Manhattan last week how he had used psychoanalysis to relieve 100 cases of asthma which had not responded to routine medical treatment. Two main factors which cause asthma, said Dr. Deutsch, are: 1) an underlying susceptibility of the lungs or respiratory tract; 2) a psychological shock. When a psychoanalyst discovers that psychological shock is the precipitating cause, he explains it to the patient, said Dr. Deutsch, and the asthma often disappears. "That there is an emotional background for asthma," he remarked, "does not mean there are no allergic factors. The former may render...
Little Logan, "a gorilla for screaming," was converted in a bathroom by his six-year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...
...first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...increase of lung cancers in the U. S. may be a result of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. If this hypothesis is true, said Dr. Matz, "the increase should be transitory." But. he warned, if the increase is due primarily to "industrial expansion and irritation of the respiratory tract by noxious chemicals and gases," cancer of the lung is here to stay...
...later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression...