Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A model sportswoman, the late Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, used to counsel new horse owners: "Win as if you were used to it and lose as if you liked it." The U.S. today shows little elation over its abundance, or even over the dawning realization that a disastrous depression is...
The Pace that Outdates. A society, like an individual, can get out of touch with itself. It "makes sense" or not, depending on the relation between what it is and what it thinks it is and wants to be. In a generation of change so rapid that the pace cannot...
¶ Though the "depression" of 1954 has been a favorite topic for some Democrats, the generally improved U.S. economy is no longer a national issue. But unemployment is a local factor in some scattered districts. Example: Indiana's Third (South Bend), where the biggest employer, Studebaker, laid off more...
Disaster reactions may range from short-lived disturbances, e.g., heavy sweating, trembling or nausea, to numbness and depression or overactivity, marked by joking, fast talk, an abundance of useless suggestions and activities. Occasionally, there may be physical reactions such as severe vomiting or hysterical paralysis, as well as blind panic...
Like many other architects who came out of college during the Depression, Thomas Fransioli had to live more by chance than by design. Commissions were scarce, so he tried other ventures-farming, hog butchering and painting. By 1939 he was designing exhibition rooms for Washington's new National Gallery...