Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Todd, curious observer, wondered what effect freshmen trepidations had on freshmen stomachs; found: "When the freshman is in this unsettled emotional state we have a look at his internal mechanism. And just before he steps up to the fluoroscope, we heighten the effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe...
...cast is so constituted that the number of supers can be greatly increased over the necessary minimum. Since a large number of men, if only as cheering sections or local color, will heighten the effect of the play the coaches will try to take just as many as possible from those who appear for the initial try-outs...
...when coupled with such an abrupt initial opening do much to destroy the artistic illusion of reality which is elsewhere carefully sustained. Mr. Haggard in "She" and "Ayesha" dealt with equally fastastic romantic themes, but he blended the elements of time and space in such a way as to heighten the reality of the supernatural...
...three days prior to each game, allow the players no food whatever. This will heighten their natural animal ferocity. On the other days feed them sparingly on raw meat, which should be thrown to them, so they will have to fight for it among themselves...
...decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel scenic effects heighten the realism and emotional effect of the play...