Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
...frustrated people usually blame for their failures not their leaders or foreigners but themselves. Results: ruthless competition for individual advancement, much individual violence, escape in movies and pulp literature...
...tremendous department store. She insisted on working for the store, no matter how small the job, even though she might have had positions with more social prestige. Dr. Burling soon discovered that the girl was deeply attached to her father, and that "she had personified the organization and transferred much of her fixation on her father to it." The case "may sound preposterous," concluded Dr. Burling, "but it is . . . an attitude I find pretty frequently...
...number of persons reported dying from starvation every week has recently risen to 2,000. Faced by these grim facts, a subcommittee of the League of Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs but would maintain life for an indefinite period of time, and prevent...
...highly original explanation for smokers' fatigue. Despite the "bounding vitality and missionary fervor" of the "heroes" who stop smoking, said the editorial, it is doubtful that the drug nicotine alone produces fatigue. There is a "feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine but "vague and subjective...