Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall, who took second in both high jump and shot on Saturday in spite of a sore groin, is now bothered with an upset stomach which it is hoped will disappear before the meet. Dubiel has picked up considerably since Saturday and may show some surprising wins...
Chief divergence: "Psychoanalysis aims to discover the causes back of the symptoms and must do that to be successful, whereas suggestion, not directly concerned with 'why,' simply commands the symptoms to disappear, ignoring the causes. If the patient believes strongly enough in the doctor or the treatment, suggestion may work." Hence the successful cures accomplished in special neurotic cases by Christian Science, Buchmanism, Seventh-Day Adventism, and Coueism. Psychoanalysis "may uncover entirely too much for the patient's peace of mind. Cures by suggestion, on the other hand, are often superficial, depending on constant renewal...
...Panamas and Consols with gold certificates deposited in the Federal Reserve banks, which in turn will pay out Federal Reserve notes. Thus while the Government is injecting more than a half-billion of new money into the economic system, practically the same amount in bank notes will disappear. In this way Mr. Morgenthau will spend part of his gold profits with no direct inflationary results...
...patients feel ill, he stops to make a personal examination and even prescribes a remedy. Thus he inevitably loses to Dr. Hathaway, who can interpret symptoms by intuition as his legs strain for the tape. The latter also knows that the best way to answer difficult questions is to disappear immediately into the main building where he can have his rubdown, free from inquisitive measle victims. It really is a tragedy that he is ineligible for Eddie Farrell's team...
...room and sometimes is allowed to stay over night. Then a few days after his departure, the confederate comes to Cambridge and takes any articles which have been selected by the first man. The pairs seem to work in Cambridge for three or four months and then disappear to show up in Princeton, New Haven, or some other college center...