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Said the New York Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward: "Knowing he was under fire for timidity, Chandler took refuge in overaction . . . .the most colossal piece of injustice and bravado yet perpetrated."

From Time Magazine Archive

All grades of overaction of the pituitary exist.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

A general reaction all along the line will accompany overaction, oversecretion, of one gland.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

Many persons refer the cause to our climate; others to the overaction of the brain and nerves in childhood and youth by our schools, and by the exhaustive excitements of social and fashionable life.

From The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 by Various

The pineal glands of a number of young bullocks were obtained and used for feeding, to see whether an overaction of the internal secretion could be produced.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.