Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Bock's administration the infirmary fee went up to $20 a year, and a speech clinic was instituted. The depression had left its mark on Harvard.
In the next seven weeks, he learned that his toughest problem was not food or drink but morale. The first few weeks were not so bad: the wind kept up, pushing him westward day by day, and life on the raft had not yet become grey, leaden monotony. But then...
At Christmas time a year ago, McPherson, Kans. (pop. 9,000) was unshakable in the certainty that it was a satisfied, solid, respectable U.S. community. The county seat of a prosperous, diversified farming area on the eastern edge of the wheat belt, it had never known depression. In the 1930...
Hans Fallada was one of those writers whose books bounce back from the Bank of Posterity stamped "Insufficient Funds." He made the international bestseller lists in the early '30s with Little Man, What Now?, a famously sentimental tale of a harassed bookkeeper whose whimpers found echoes all over a...
As a personal worker in the Seattle Crusade ... I rather question the phrase, "In fits of depression" he "reproaches himself . . . for vainglory." In most instances, human beings are more apt to pride themselves in moments of exultation and joy of success. I believe his reproaching of himself is continual since...