Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn, you-may-be-next propaganda of psychiatry has pretty well trained the public, the hard-boiled included, not to make jokes about the insane. The theme of A Mind Mislaid is that the public has been overtrained, now takes mental illness much too seriously. A nervous breakdown, says 75-year-old Author Brown, is no worse than typhoid fever or double pneumonia. In the genial, conversational vein of his entertaining miscellanies of 19th Century New York history he now offers a relaxing account of his own three-year stay in famed Bloomingdale Hospital to prove the point...
...hogs"' who cracked up trying to outdo Rockefeller. Another big group were reaping the just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship of the Museum of the City of New-York, which he had worked ten years to found, was turned over to "a younger man from the wild and woolly West" (41-year-old Hardinge Scholle...
...with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes and stand rigid, growling for a whole hour. In those hours even placing an apple on Achilles' nose failed to make him stir or eat. We believe that this experimental neurosis...
Reader Thornton should recheck his figures. The only Department of Commerce statistical breakdown regarding marine accidents in 1935 is for the period June 30, 1935 to June 30, 1936. According to the Department of Commerce, during that period, 239,816,321 people traveled on U. S. ships. Of these 338 died, 273 by suicide, personal accident, natural causes. The remaining 65 fatalities were among crews. Fact is, no passenger lost his life on a U. S. ship in that time from a preventable cause...
...over the top as a whole, while insufficiently supplying Russians with sugar, fruit, vegetables, butter and margarine. Coal, electricity and oil went statistically over the top. But last week the Cabinet sweepingly ordered all Soviet organizations to reduce their consumption of coal, electricity and oil by 10%. disclosing a breakdown of planning in the commissariat in which they are pigeonholed...