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...Causes. Religion's decline after the 1870s helped increase man's natural feeling of insecurity, and is thus a cause as well as a symptom, Dr. Halliday believes. Western society also suffered from changes in child-rearing, he thinks. Dr. Halliday looks skeptically at the flush toilet, and deplores its leading to too-early toilet training, hence frustration. The decline in breast-feeding and the general use of baby carriages, he thinks, robbed children of needed, reassuring contact with their mothers. Many changes were good physiologically, but bad psychologically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Mental Seams: At the Mental Seams | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...difficult to find words to accurately describe my thoughts relative to the article concerning the wedding of our well-beloved Elizabeth. As a fourth-generation Canadian, and, I hope and pray, a good British subject, I feel a hot flush of disgust for your article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

That left just one more question: would Argentina herself ratify the treaty? After all, Perón was no longer so flush with funds. González , flashing his most confident smile, was not afraid of that either. Perón, he said, would keep his bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Calculated Risk | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...though the new ideas had been violently avowed, and the hallmark of their advocates was a fanaticism unknown since the first flush of Islam, wherever the fanatics were brought to trial, almost without exception they failed to defend their beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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