Word: pai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these prescriptions are wrong, a British expert now reports. M. Narasimha Pai, an Indian-born psychiatrist attached to Britain's Mill Hill and Sutton Emergency Hospitals, has decided that previous investigators were misled by the name of the disease, which is also known as "scrivener's palsy." Writer's cramp, he says, has nothing to do with writers or writing fatigue; it is a symptom of neurosis and may attack anybody...
...British Journal of Mental Science, Pai reports that he has found writer's cramp surprisingly widespread in Britain.* He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp. Only six, all clerks, had done a good deal of writing. Most of the patients developed their symptoms upon being assigned to uncongenial jobs that required some writing...
...patients were really ill, thinks Pai, and were not just trying a fancy dodge. Cramped writers, he observed, fall into two distinct classes: 1) the tremulous type, whose writing is wavering, generally suffered from severe anxiety, 2) spastic (pinched) or ataxic (jerky) writers were suffering from hysterical neuroses...
...Responsible authorities [in Manchuria] say that Soviet pilots and artillerymen have been in action with Chinese Communist troops . . . Russian soldiers of occupation have been guilty of terror and rape-more than can be told. The Manchuria lao pai hsing [common people] told me: 'Everything lao pai hsing won't do, the Russian ta pi tzu [big noses] have done...
...assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...