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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noted, no longer take off their hats as they walk by London's Cenotaph (monument to Britain's war dead), or for the passing of a funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Quota, The Goddess | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halting Words | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Angry Man. During the negotiations, the radio industry was casting nervous glances over its shoulder toward Washington. Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Amber Light | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Through recent articles in several medical journals, and in interviews last week, Dr. Soresi expounded his pet theory: that the nervous system is like an involved electrical circuit, and that pain is felt only when there is a short circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Soresi, who has been denouncing pain for 30 years, hopes some day to have his own laboratory to probe deeper into the resemblance between the nervous system and an electric circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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