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Word: worrier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic aspirants, then damned them all with faint praise. For example: To many a caller Franklin Roosevelt has indicated that Cordell Hull is completely acceptable to him as the best 1940 compromise. But he also expressed fears that Mr. Hull is too old, and too much of a worrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...mental health of teachers is below normal. The average teacher is a worrier. Two-fifths of them worry so much that it interferes with their sleep and efficiency. Chief of their worries: lack of money. A large proportion worry about the unsatisfactory progress of their pupils. Relatively few worry about marital affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fit to Teach | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Nervous and physical strain of a 200,000 circulation first edition over, Photo-Facts Editor Delano found himself in a hospital last week. There he can read in Editor Lurton's Your Life: "The high-strung worrier can actually fret himself into serious organic diseases such as stomach ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Funk & Fawcett | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Worrier. No other actor in Hollywood worries so much about his work as Paul Muni. He believes that in order to give a fine performance he must hypnotize himself into the mood of the role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as other actors do to while away the intervals of their work. He sits apart brooding. Before taking a role he studies all the research which the writers used in preparing the script. Once he went to a Warner Brothers producer and complained: "I don't understand this role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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