Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of a ten-foot circle, he bounded out with a straight gait in 30 seconds flat, as 100 fans cheered. There were no rules governing the race: one contestant dropped dead of an overdose of adrenalin. Arkansas Express will be entered in turtledom's Kentucky Derby, the sixth annual turtle trudge at the University of Detroit this week...
Psychologist Oliver Lacey of Cornell University reasoned that a disordered metabolism might have predisposed the rats to jumpy nerves. In follow-up experiments, he proved it by injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...
...cartoon in which the doctor tells the little man he seems to be allergic to himself. Now, it appears, the joke is no laughing matter. Many unfortunates actually are allergic to themselves: i.e., to the chemicals such as sex hormones, insulin, adrenalin produced by their own bodies...
...beauty, that Roger had a nice income and no one to share it with. While Gloria pursued Roger, Margaret took Emily to Maine for a nice holiday. Emily, she insisted, was not well; perhaps her heart was weak. "Our dear old doctor," Margaret told the other vacationers, "suggests adrenalin...
...bank account. So when Emily -who was growing frightened-phoned the manager to say she wanted to change her will, the manager just said soothingly that he'd drop around some time. But he did not appear. Upstairs, Margaret was filing the top off the ampoule of adrenalin...