Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Architects believe that modern buildings can, and shortly will be, a great deal better than they are now. One reason is that modern science has been asked to tell architects what indoor environment man really wants and needs.
Planned Heat. The air conditions in a house, office or factory must suit the activities of the people who live or work there. The more physical work that is done, the more heat the body develops. A secretary or a housewife mending socks wants warmer air than is needed by...
Alas, the Eskimo Curlew. Most extreme of the Neo-Malthusian scare books is Vogt's Road to Survival. Vogt is an ornithologist, once editor of Bird Lore, who (to quote the book's jacket) "became interested in the relationship of man to his environment through his studies of...
Psychiatry recognizes two main types of mental illness, although there is no sharp distinction between them. The man who wanders so far from reality that he lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who...
psychoneurosis (or neurosis). A form of mental disease, characterized by conflicting emotions and bad adjustment to environment. Symptoms: nervousness, attacks of anxiety, hysteria, depression, fatigue, etc.