Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin S. Edwards of the University of Georgia works for a tobacco-growing state, but in the latest Journal of Applied Psychology he reports one effect of tobacco smoking: it increases "finger tremor," an indication of disturbance in the nervous system...
...tested a group of psychology students with a "finger tronometer" (his own invention), which measures the trembling of an outstretched human finger. First he measured the students' "finger tremor" before they started smoking. Then he let each of them smoke half a cigarette, and measured their tremor again. The fingers of the hardened smokers, he found, had increased their trembling 39%. Students who had never smoked before were hardly affected...
They owed their immunity, Dr. Edwards suspected, to the fact that most non-smokers do not inhale when they try a cigarette. So he divided the steady smokers into inhalers and non-inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...
...there are few who do not respect his questing intelligence or the spiritual inspiration which has infused old ortho doxy with the tremor of new life. Most would agree with the words of the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, when he met Reinhold Niebuhr for the first time: "At last I've met the troubler of my peace...
...ahead, road crews strengthened bridges and culverts. The trailer crept over them carefully, while a vibration meter-connected with a microphone inside the case-reported each tremor of the mirror. But the driver needed no admonition. Like everyone else in the cavalcade, he knew that man's latest bright hope of understanding the universe was riding behind his truck...