Word: hysteria
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...bank's depositors, many of whom were in line by 9 a. m., the news brought some hysteria. To the Stock Exchange, unsettled all week by fear of this development, the news brought uncertainty, alternate selling and buying. To the market in bank shares it brought much selling. If the Bronx merchant who had tried to sell his Bank of United States stock the day before had succeeded, he would have received 11½a share. After the closing, he would have been lucky to get more than $3. Last year this stock sold...
...average preparatory school man's impression of college is gained from the hysteria of football games and his own preconceived notion of the university as a larger edition of his school. Some of these men when they enter the freshman class, are either disillusioned by the prosaic and unromantic nature of the college routine, or else they find the freedom and opportunities for pleasure too tempting and lose their heads with the new freedom...
...valleys of the Ohio, Potomac and lower Mississippi ceased to be front page news as soon as President Hoover had held his White House conferences and told the States affected how to set up relief machinery without U. S. Treasury aid (TIME, Aug. 18). The mild public hysteria that had marked official action and pronouncements subsided. But still little or no rain fell over the blighted areas of Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last week as the drought passed into its fifth month Government officials took fresh stock of the conditions...
...Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which had been his occupation, and study natural processes. After a course in general medicine, he specialized in neurology. One day, Dr. Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, told him about a girl cured of hysteria by recollecting under hypnosis certain forgotten experiences. From that time, Freud persisted in his neurological studies, built up a psychological treatment for hysteria which led to the system of psychoanalysis...
Londoners, who have often smiled at U. S. hero-hysteria, took the occasion to make the return of Amy a public demonstration of the prowess of Young Britain, a formal refutation of "decay in the gardens of England." "I wish to emphasize particularly," said Lord Thomson, "that 1930 has been a young woman's year...