Word: overloaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first meeting last night, the eight-man Smoker committee tentatively decided to accept last year's Union Committee recommendations and not overload the program with professional entertainers...
...cures administered to psychotic calculators are weirdly like the modern cures for insanity. One method is to overload the calculator with an extra strong electrical impulse in hope that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
Last week at the A.M.A. convention in Chicago, Drs. Robert M. Marcussen and Harold G. Wolff of New York Hospital told what they had learned in an eight-year study of migraine. The most likely sufferers are reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload themselves with responsibilities and then get tense when they find that they can't finish the outsize jobs they have tackled. Their "pernicious emotional states" make the arteries in their heads swell, causing the excruciating pain of migraine...
...Network announced last night that its broadcasts to Eliot would be resumed "early next week" after the rewiring of circuits to the House is completed. Radios tuned to the local station have received only static since the transformer feeding Standish Hall and Eliot gave way under an overload last week...
...there speakers agreed that current laws, if passed, would overload the N.L.R.B. and increase industrial unrest...