Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase, a sure sign that cash reserves had been thinned down considerably. At the same time, credit (at banks and loan companies) was harder to get. Graham Towers, head of the government's Industrial Development Bank, sounded the keynote: "We must scrutinize applications for credit with ever-increasing care...
...smaller campuses-the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside (900 acres), where now only a handful of graduate students in citriculture take up all the space. The new college will accommodate over 1,000 students. That, said the regents, was just the first step in taking care of the state's growing college population-which ought to have 277,087 students to draw from...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
...general practitioner, think Allan & Kaufman, can usually take care of benign nervousness. Talking things over is often enough; the patient should have a chance to tell his story. Sedatives like phenobarbital often help; so does religion. Most general practitioners, who suspect that psychiatrists put too much emphasis on the psyche in psychosomatic, would agree...
...Snake Pit (see CINEMA), one of the best, but even Rockland was 30% overcrowded, with 6,100 patients jammed into space intended for 4,700. "The hospital needed at least twice as many doctors, twice as many nurses, and three times as many attendants to provide adequate care and treatment . . . Often only one attendant watched over two wards for homicidal patients. There weren't nearly enough recreation workers or occupational therapy workers to help Rockland's patients on the road back to mental normalcy...