Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the Social Security Act. I believe in old-age pensions. I think we have to deal that way with many things. I believe in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer, but simply as something which gives hope, which gives perhaps a suggestion which might be followed by communities; never because the Federal Government could answer the whole problem of the unemployment of youth by a Youth Administration or WPA. It can't be done. These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. That is what we have done...
...down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies he had written. Their authenticated number...
...Association, more than 1,000 enthusiastic Orthopsychiatrists buzzed in the ballroom of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, discussed such varied subjects as the connection of economics and personality, hostility of Pilaga Indian children to everybody and everything, emotional qualifications of good teachers, infant pyromania, problems of old age. Cheerful social workers occupied most of the ballroom chairs, but the meeting was dominated by psychoanalysts, who gave evidence of the utility and freshness of old Sigmund Freud's ideas (see p. 41) whence they had all got theirs...
...Third Reich faces a serious shortage of physicians. To increase the number of "Aryan" doctors, Hitler last month announced that beginning April first, the period of medical education will be reduced by two full years. Last week he legally recognized Heilpraktiker (healing physicians) over 25 years of age. To practice medicine all a Heilpraktiker need show is an "intuitive ability" to cure the sick and three years of successful work in healing. Purpose of licensing practitioners who would be labeled quacks in most other countries, was said to be the eradication of quackery...
...American newspapermen with at least three years' experience are eligible for fellowships, regardless of age or previous education. The entire field of instruction is open to the Nieman Fellows, who carry on a program of lectures, seminars, private reading, and informal discussions, supplemented by formal course study under Archibald Macleish, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...