Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to oppose a limitation in arms, but I do not believe the American people approve of attempts to humiliate and cause dissension in their Government before representatives of foreign governments...
...junior year before I suffered any nervous breakdown, I wrote a pamphlet not the least bitter in tone and not complaining that athletics had treated me "shabbily." Nor am I bitter today, yet I still firmly and calmly believe that our University athletics contain many an abuse, and provide a rich field for far reaching reform...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
...only previous recipients of the Priestley Medal have been the late President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...