Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Percy Stickney Grant, one-time rector of the Church of the Ascension, made the biggest news contribution of all. The newspapers learned that he had been forced to repair to a hospital, the victim of a nervous breakdown. It was known that Dr. Grant had been in an extremely nervous condition when he resigned his pastorate last June, and the cause of the breakdown was thought to be a recurrence of an old ailment, anemia...
...this extraordinarily heavy traffic has been handled without confusion, delay or breakdown. Facilities and equipment have apparently at all times been entirely adequate. The huge purchase of equipment by the roads in the last few years, coupled with large sums spent on maintenance of way, have made this record possible...
...nervous wreck crawled into his bed, refused to communicate with newspaper reporters. This wreck was Maj. Arnold Wilson, promoter of the light heavyweight fight between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, and "Basking" Jack Bloomfield, of England, in Wembley Stadium (TIME, Aug. 11). Reasons for the Major's breakdown were that his balance sheet showed a loss of some ?12,000; that Tom Gibbons, sailing for the U. S., had instructed attorneys to collect a missing ?8,061 of ?10,000 promised him by the Major: and his friends...
Trade news continued to reveal a sizeable recession in both production and trade. The basic steel industry in particular has slowed down to a marked degree, and is now operating on about a 60% capacity. In some specialty lines, such as carpets, a real breakdown has occurred...
...South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident he never did a stroke of work...