Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiences may tend to fixate infantile behavior. ... If the seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often...
That calf is now a fine 2-year-old Ayrshire bull. From the top of its head projects a single prodigious horn (see cut). Dr. Dove describes the character of his artificial unicorn thus: "True in spirit as in horn to his prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness...
...smart Army doctor who last year made news by describing the symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...
...This peculiar American concept has made for a comparatively low standard of scholastic requirement in the United States at large, and sent many men to college who could have spent their time much more profitably learning a trade or earning a living...