Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Africa remember only vaguely why he started running. It was some grudge he had against the government. Kaffirs had been given holdings too near his farm. He protested, but the government paid little attention. Through months of talking and brooding the thought of winning that case became a mania eating up all his other thoughts. By degrees it developed a corollary. He felt that to get the hearing he wanted he must attract attention, make himself famous by some remarkable exploit or else hurt himself so badly and spectacularly that the British Government in South Africa and the whole...
Although the article is not exactly comforting to the men that fall in this category because of their indecision, it, however, points out that Time is one of the most powerful allies on the side of youth and that even those who suffer from this mania that Mr. Barton describes can succeed. Also to those who cannot find their proper business there is the phrase, "to every man who really gives his best, his own business is the most exciting and satisfying in the world...
This country's mania for stock speculation seems to have subsided for the time being at least. The stuation at present with money extremely cheap and security prices staying at about the same level would seem to indicate that the speculative element is going to wait for actual improvement in business conditions before giving any substantial support to the market...
...Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic...