Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, psychopathology needs the university. Up to the present time it has been the handi-work of private practitioners; men prey to the claims of the nervous world. It has now reached a stage when it is ready for companionship with academic psychology. Its concepts need to be exposed to the experimental method and to a rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes...
Oxford, unfortunately, has lately become the prey of commercial enterprise; the Morris-Cowley motor-car works are nearby, while suburbanizing influences have made North Oxford as ugly as Hinksey is squalid. But it is easy to escape this ugliness and squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good...
...exhibition case of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Its neck is stretched far forward; its flippers beat the water; its runty tail sticks straight out behind. Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharks-leathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey...
Spain's invalid Crown Prince, the Infante Don Alfonso, suffers from exactly the same dread and peculiar disease, haemophilia,* which afflicted the Tsarevitch Alexis, son and heir of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
...drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...