Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...
Quite consistent with his character was the bloodless revolution subsequent to the breakdown of the Central Powers in 1918, and the comparative peace which reigned up to 1933, despite the fact that Austria, unable to exist in economic independence, was in continuous financial and moral distress...
...Germs are to be feared but they are not our greatest menace. The thing mostly to be feared is a breakdown in natural immunity. Perfect circulation of good blood is our first and greatest defense against disease. The production and circulation of this natural germicide depends upon rational living and correct diet, the necessary sanitary measures and by no means least, a properly adjusted body machine to make the blood and to take it where it is needed...
...fact that Their Lordships studiously ignored this outburst of Lord Snowden was taken to mean not that the Prime Minister lacked defenders, but that silence was the best means of glossing over his latest breakdown, which leaves the Lord Privy Seal and Conservative Party Leader Mr. Stanley Baldwin as the Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last...
...about revolution, but to preserve it." Only half-reassured, the anxious reader will then want to know how soon the revolution will be upon him. Author Soule cautiously replies: "Some time in the future-perhaps not for another generation or two-there is likely to occur another equally serious breakdown cf capitalism. If by that time the ferment of ideas has done its work and the rising classes have attained sufficient status and confidence, the two essential ingredients of the revolutionary mixture will be present...