Word: hysterias
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...scene was set for what followed. When the current grounded, a loud report was heard and the people were blinded by a sudden flare, only to find themselves in darkness. Moments of hysteria were inevitable...
...same unleashed wild prophecies lead to hysteria. Our people are easily stirred. Such forebodings may bring on panic in which men lose control of themselves in a blind fear of the incomprehensible. There has been not so much irrational talk in Germany about starvation as in America, although here even our very poor have enough to eat, from the present German standard...
...effort. No vast military good is accomplished by refusing to dance, to heal music and see plays, or to keep up our friendships. In a time of increased effort, indeed, a more than normal amount of amusement is needed, as has been found in warring nations, after the first hysteria of war nervousness has worn off. It might be urged that pleasure found by intense enjoyment is artificial. But all pleasure is artificial, provided we assume a pessimistic...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
During the past few weeks the University's preparations for war have been sharply criticised, the chief charge against them being of mob hysteria. It has been said that we are going "warmad," and plunging into the new work forgetful of all other obligations. We thus have the responsibility of living down these imputations by the closest possible attention to the immediate tasks at hand, particularly the college work itself...