Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young girls reported similar dreams about their mothers, he formulated his concept of the Oedipus Complex,* which holds that all youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized. Many a onetime disciple has drifted away, revising, overhauling, stripping the flesh from the impregnable skeleton...
...church in Jamaica, L. I., publisher of small Long Island newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told several women they were to go on trips...
...outrageous that such weird cult practices should be permitted in the heart of civilization. On all sides there were available the facilities of advanced science that could have saved his life, and yet this boy was allowed to die without medical treatment. . . . Mrs. MacDonald, the head nurse, told me that they had no history of the case, did not even so much as know what was wrong with the boy and made no effort to find out. She told me they put him to rest in bed, gave him whatever liquid nourishment he was able to swallow, and trusted...
...Into that measure had been packed the greatest public works program ($3,300,000,000) ever undertaken by one government and the largest peacetime powers over industrial wages, hours, prices and output ever given to one man in the U. S. It was President Roosevelt's do-or-die attack against the Depression. Just before he left for Boston on the first leg of his vacation, he gave the country his own estimate...
Duquesne is a little Pennsylvania steel town, twelve miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. For two years its 21,000 inhabitants watched the tires die in the blast furnaces one by one. Then for two more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass...