Word: nervous
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...play was again begun, and Harvard attempted to brace, but their tends were lamed and nervous from the repeated fouling of the Yale rush line, and they fumbled the ball several times, giving two touchdowns to Yale through Beck and Farwell, from which one goal was kicked by Richards. The ball was brought out and kicking by Keith and Mason carried the ball up the field. Appleton and Kendall did good tackling, while Cabot and Morison gained considerable ground by their rushing. Adams, the substitute, did his work almost perfectly and made a great success of this his first appearance...
Grass widow. - Yes, but it is very wearing on a high-strung, nervous disposition to have a husband who has no sympathies with one's most sacred aspirations...
...nitrogen, and that various kinds of food possessed these qualities in different degrees. The world's greatest scientists have devoted themselves to classifying foods according to their chemical compounds and effects on the human body. But no table of nutritives can be accurate in its application, as the nervous and muscular tissues are not the same...
...should be taken in proportion to physical action undergone. Coffee and tea are not detrimental, and do not produce the unpleasant reactive results of alcohol. Tea produces perspiration, while coffee produces a dryness of the skin and excites the action of the heart. In case of any resultant nervous affection, they should be left...
...disease), the growing use of tobacco is a serious evil. If used at all freely, it most certainly shortens life; and when taken by the young (and boys who are scarcely more than infants are now seen with cigarettes), it prevents full development and dwarfs and twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity...