Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...enormous, incalcuable waste of our way of doing business, with its waste of machinery, of men, of the efforts of mass labor, and above all, with its waste from war. Ours is a system which contains the seeds of inevitable war, a system which is not only going to breakdown, but which has broken down, and functions today most miserably in many parts of Europe. We must substitute service for profit as the supreme motive in life, and begin social organization and the deliberate planning of industry. In America unlike Europe, there is time to apply intelligence to the working...
...Scattergood, who, as a member of the original Red Cross Committee to France, and also as a worker for the settlement of Europe during the years of reconstruction, has gained a thorough knowledge of the situation, was the next speaker. "Language cannot describe the misery of the economic breakdown of Europe," he said. "Any work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard...
...last disclosing itself with relentless logic to the self interest of the Briton. His country, so dependent on foreign trade, cannot afford to see the ring of commercial nations be deprived of one of its most energetic and contributive members with a consequent loss of markets and a general breakdown of trader's confidence. England has repented of the vindictiveness in which she was caught up after the war. The spectacle of nearly two million unemployed workers on her streets is a powerful call to reshape her foreign policy on lines to put it at the lowest of a truer...
...people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep clean and pure. They are trying to prevent a breakdown in the Treasury, but the whole nation knows that for three years I have known how to attend to the necessities of the Administration. . . . The presentation of his [Pani's] libelous statement has the object of covering incompetence to solve the financial problem which is now in his charge...