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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a man stripped of his skin and moving about with his nervous system all exposes; he reacts violently and directly by transmitting the ghastly vision down through his pen and onto the pages of such books as "It's a Long Way to Heaven" and "What Am I Doing Here...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...there be for me?' He would not even raise his eyes. Finally I read the story to him, then he asked if he could see it himself. While he was reading and re-reading it, De Cardonne told me that very morning Sekoto, partially cured of his nervous breakdown, had been released from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...game, and the Hanoverians showed very little to be pround of. The following week, however, they rose up and slaughtered Holy Cross, 31 to 7, a pastime which seems to be conventional in the Ivy League this year. Last week they trimmed Colgate, 27, to 13, after spending a nervous first half...

Author: By Bayard Hoofer, | Title: Dartmouth May Make Traditional Trouble | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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