Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the impact of those forces, they produce a student body which is subtle as Sphinx, many-sided and totally lacking in unity of approach or opinion on almost any subject. This breakdown of the undergraduates into group after self-sufficient group is probably the most significant psychological factor in the College today. Schizophrenia, it might be called, and it is unique and potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind...
...Magnan-Pellenc's exertions led to a nervous breakdown last fortnight. While she convalesces, the interim torchbearer for the Amazons is tall, slender Mme. Jeanne Mirbel...
...rival team let out a black cat from their dugout as Jackie walked up to bat. Jackie got mad and hit a triple with the bases loaded. By the time the season ended, his doctor told him that he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, but nobody would have guessed it by looking at his record. Second Baseman Robinson led the International League in batting (with a .349 average) and in fielding (with a .985 average). Montreal won the pennant, and the fans, after one game, chaired Jackie and carried him around the field. Jackie Robinson was ready...
Deep Valley (Warner) is a story about lonely people, and what the breakdown of their loneliness does for them-and to them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course...
...British occupation authorities had sponsored the exhibition in an attempt to build up an export trade for their combined zones, called Bizonia. A breakdown of orders placed by the 1,500 foreign visitors showed 20% for automobiles and accessories. Only 20% went for toys, musical instruments and other small industry products...