Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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My door had a Yale lock and letters went into a row of little boxes at the bottom of each staircase each with its own combination lock. My combination I never knew, which didn't matter as I had no letters; but I had great fun "listening for the tumblers...
Called dementia praecox because it strikes most victims between the "precocious" ages of 18 and 35, called schizophrenia because it reveals a split between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured...
Elinor was pleased to discover that there was something about her that men liked. It might have been her figure, with its 18-in. waist. "Whatever it was," says she, "I became a sort of storm centre wherever I went." After one countryhouse ball, four of her suitors after quarreling...
But I remember being very worked up about the problem in hand and refusing to quit till I had my say. I was very doctrinaire in my defense of the (I suppose) obscurantist position that it all didn't amount to that. That progress was a myth and science just...
According to the Governor, the purpose of the survey will be to discover whether the budget of the State Colege can be pared. James G. Reardon, commissioner of education, backed his Governor in attacking Hugh P. Baker, president of the State College.