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Word: phobias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second stage of rabies is mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling begins, not so fast and frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...hope of ballot victories, but with the purpose of gaining allies for the ever-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS | 11/9/1932 | See Source »

...hope of ballot victories, but with the purpose of gaining allies for the over-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS | 11/8/1932 | See Source »

...established, the blood flow begins, the "pacemaker" contracts, the heart begins to work normally. C. Dr. Marcus Adolphus Rothschild of Manhattan warned that telling sufferers from myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart) that they have heart disease often leads to the development of a heart phobia that lasts a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Heart (Cont'd) | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bungle | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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