Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arise in the minds of upperclassmen who are taking advanced courses. In the great majority of them the material covered is of an extremely amorphous nature. Three times a week a learned professor expounds the gospel to them, assigns them a mass of reading, and then expects them to digest the heterogeneous meal without any aid, whatsoever. It is true that some courses still retain the section meetings in form, but as conducted at present, these are rarely of any material aid to the bewildered student. Conducted by indifferent section men, they often degenerate into fruitless debates over insignificant issues...
Monday evening when the Seniors have had ample time to digest the wisdom received in the Sermon, they will have their Senior Spread and Dance, at ten o'clock...
Anxiety States are the commonest of all neuroses. The patient is in a continuous condition of fear, physically and mentally. His heart palpitates; his limbs are weak; he cannot digest his food; he sweats easily; he gets out of breath. Mentally he is often the victim of one of the foregoing phobias. Dr. Sigmund Freud believes that anxiety states are always caused by sexual frustration. But, says FORTUNE, "most psychiatrists would also include financial worries, domestic friction, and other non-sexual causes. In some ways an anxiety state resembles an acute neurasthenia...
...private property. The U. S. as a whole never had the feeling that it was fighting for its life; it has not had that feeling since the 1860's. But such an experience, as most Europeans know, takes more than one or two generations to digest. The U. S. is still in process of making up its mind about its Civil...
Plucked from every Monday morning's mail on some 20,000 U. S. desks is the Kiplinger Washington Letter, a shrewd, crackling appraisal of current news. It is not, as many suppose, a digest of Capital gossip or confidential "inside stuff." Published and edited by a onetime Associated Press Washington correspondent, the weekly Kiplinger letter is a service for subscribers who are "pretty well fed up on facts. They want evaluation, so that facts fit together and mean something...