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Word: depressionitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ A third drug for dropping the blood pressure, mecamylamine (trade name: Inversine), sometimes causes severe anxiety or depression and is suspected of having triggered disabling mental illnesses. Other patients have developed chorea (muscular twitching), with tremor, slurred speech, and difficulty in controlling the joints; in some cases the symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Dangers | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

¶ A fourth hypotensive, reserpine, may speed the appearance of peptic ulcers or worsen those already developed. It also commonly causes depression, often severe, and sometimes marked by delusions of persecution and suicidal impulses. And reserpine can hasten the death of patients with damaged hearts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Dangers | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

New Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met at 75 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

But one who can justly claim that no man was ever under heavier or more cruel stress and survived it in good mental and physical health is Herbert Hoover, 84. One of only five U.S. Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adding Life to Years | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

The man who recast Esquire is the man who made the mold in the first place: furrow-browed, loquacious Arnold Gingrich, 54, founding editor and present publisher. Gingrich was just 29 in 1933 when he put together the first issue of the magazine with a pair of Chicago men'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Esquire | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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