Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURE. "Nervous Breakdown during Adolescence and Adult Life." Dr. James J. Putnam. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...stanzas' description of the Greek foot-race and the Roman chariot race are full of speed, vigor and physical exhilaration; but the third stanza which attempted to trace the same racing instinct in the automobile race, and to give a moral twist to the whole is a woful breakdown. It is hardly believable that the man who composed the spirited opening lines...
...Harvard Dining Association has just contracted for a new engine and generator, a much needed addition to the present plant. It will guard against a breakdown and consequent crippling of the service, for although the present auxiliary power is suited for lighting purposes, it is useless for the washing and ice-cream machinery, the well-pump and ventilating fan, all of which take direct current. In the spring, when the ventilating and artificial ice plants must be run longer each day than they are now, the generator would be heavily over-loaded and might prove inadequate. The installation...
...about diet, but his illness was most certainly not brought on by lack of good food, in any sense of the word. He was a bright clever fellow and never showed any peculiarities in manner or dress. It is a shame that publicity has been made of his slight breakdown in health, an occurrence that is by no means uncommon to a comparatively large percentage of men in any great college; and I, for one, can see no excuse for the printing of such a false report as the one here referred...