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Word: psychiadabra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Vague as such psychiadabra may seem to laymen, the Army's psychiatrists have plenty of evidence to justify their concern. For the care of mentally disordered soldiers and veterans, the U. S. has spent $1,000,000,000 in 14 years. Less than half of these unfortunates have shell shock (from World War I) or other troubles directly attributable to military life. Moral: the rest should never have been admitted into the Army. Last week Colonel Rowntree's assistants reported that 10% of volunteers taken into the U. S. Army in 1940 began to display psychiatric difficulties after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Wackies | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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