Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fits" they produce are violent and may cause a patient to hurt himself. As many as half the metrazol patients used to get small fractures of vertebrae and other bones, but lately some doctors have used curare (TIME, Feb. 21) to relax muscles so that violent spasms will not occur...
...certain whether insulin shock brings about more ultimate remissions of dementia praecox (psychiatrists never speak of cures) than would occur anyhow. All that is certain is that it cuts the average hospital stay. And no one yet knows just how any kind of shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental...
...same as it was to Tom Dewey's overtures: he would not let himself be used by either candidate until his mind was made up on their foreign-policy intentions. He made a careful distinction between Candidate Roosevelt and President Roosevelt: "I would much prefer that... no conference occur until after the election. But if the President of the United States wishes to see me sooner, I shall of course comply." With equal impartiality, Willkie had been willing to talk "bipartisan" foreign policy with Tom Dewey's friend, John Foster Dulles, but not yet with Candidate Dewey (TIME...
...When they decide to have a child, couples who use contraceptives must usually wait three months or more for conception to occur. The wait increases by about two months for every year that contraceptives have been used...
...predicts that the U.S. will wind up with a possible 19,000,000 unemployed unless it raises its economy to a higher productive level than 1940's. He sees little chance of raising U.S. economy to such a point. For, says he, the expected roaring postwar boom will not occur; spotty prosperity will make some industries hum and others lag, while unemployment increases...