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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds was up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: l-to-5 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Most striking of all changes" was the increase in nervous and mental hospitals, which averaged only 350,000 patients a day in 1927, but over 550,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Hospitals | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...outlining the caused of the functional disturbances of breakdowns, Williams summarized them as heredity, individual constitution, and environmental constitutions. "Nervous disorders," he said, "are best served by a discussion with a proper doctor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nerve Diseases Undefinable Human Ailments, Says Doctor | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...There are no such definite things as nervous breakdowns," explained Dr. Vernon P. Williams '24, formerly of the Hygiene Department, in a public lecture yesterday afternoon at the Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nerve Diseases Undefinable Human Ailments, Says Doctor | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Most nervous diseases are explainable only by symptoms and reactions, as compared to physical diseases, for which actual parts of the body can be diagnosed," Williams said Continuing, he mentioned rationalization, the pretending that things are as people want them rather than as they really are, as the origin of many nervous diseases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nerve Diseases Undefinable Human Ailments, Says Doctor | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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