Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul's Union Depot an engine breakdown prolonged for a half-hour the tears, bustle and confusion of departure. Most families had killed their pets, thinking they were not allowed to take them along, but a few had dogs or cats and one woman had a canary. Having come from rented or foreclosed farms, most families were traveling light. Typically, the Clyde Cooks had only a stove. Their two attractive daughters, aged 16 and 18, were broken-hearted at leaving old friends behind. But the five boys, aged 2 to 14, were primed for adventure...
Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold...
...Breakdown of the Roman Empire," Professor Salvemini. Emerson...
Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers...
When news of the suicide of Henry Charles Whitehouse reached London, Strauss & Co.'s second largest stockholder collapsed in a sweat, was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. Trading on the hoary old Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange, biggest grain market in Europe, virtually halted while the managers posted a notice cancelling Strauss & Co.'s trading privileges. In Bombay, Bank of India and five other Indian banks started proceedings to collect the money which Manager Whitehouse had been ordered to stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated...