Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead story, Maurice Obregon's "Eclipse," is a less successful attempt to analyze the reaction of a group of academicians to the breakdown of the scientific hypotheses. Unfortunately weak in literary exposition, the story holds the reader by creating curiosity over a conclusion which will satisfy neither the mature philosopher nor the artist. Rodes Arnold's "Staring" displays far maturer descriptive technique, but much of its merit is destroyed as irrelevant threads reduce the plot to a meaninglessly banal hodgepodge...
...particular faction. Never before had the election of a national chairman meant so much, or been so vigorously contested. In 1928, the naming of the leader for the coming year was little more than a formality; last week in St. Louis it signified the completion of an internal breakdown that has tormented the Grand Old Party since the Philadelphia gallery broke all custom and practically nominated Wendell Willkie...
Quislingite Bishop Einar Lothe of Trondheim, Norway has suffered a nervous breakdown and asked permission to retire. Reasons: for months Bishop Lothe has been treated with "icy disdain" by the townspeople; his congregation in Trondheim Cathedral, where he preaches in uniform, has dwindled to a mere handful; soon after he gets on a crowded streetcar he often finds himself the sole occupant...
...casualties in eleven months of World War II, as announced* last week: 47,463 killed, wounded, captured and missing. The breakdown...
...refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...