Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...very good medical treatment for hypertension," that droves of patients run to "physician after physician seeking relief, and . . . large numbers of physicians do likewise. . . . Almost all products so enthusiastically advertised are valueless. A program of adequate rest and recreation, avoidance ... of nervous stresses and strains, the acquisition of a calm peaceful attitude, the use of sedatives, the maintenance of normal weight and the judicious use of drugs ... is as good as any." Hypertension is a disease of the arterial system. The heart pumps blood into the arteries with such force that if a large artery were slashed and a vertical...
...With almost evenly divided opinions, and studied calm, listened quietly as debate began on extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for three years. Said Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.): to abandon the policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...
...which outmoded crystal sets; next by his superheterodyne hookup, the basis for present-day one-dial tuning. His FM system has all the earmarks of another, and more sweeping revolution. Neither sunspots, lightning, electric razors, icebox motors, telephone dials, switches, bed warmers nor passing street cars can ruffle its calm...
...Intensive air bombing of supply lines and the enemy's home front is highly effective even against people as calm and well organized as the Finns. If port facilities and factories are not put out of commission, their functioning is greatly reduced by air-raid interruptions. Though torn-up tracks may soon be relaid, troop trains are harassed, train schedules disrupted by repeated threats from above...
...Spiral of Inflation." To irate critics who call the whole ?400 million scheme a "forced loan," Professor Keynes is tireless in his calm, persuasive retorts. He starts by asking everyone to remember how, during World War I, prices rose much faster than wages (as they are again doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet...