Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulick's committee recommends would cost some $38,000,000. But he contends that the State can save more than $40,000,000-$2,000,000 net-by consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
Much more interesting than these generally recognized weaknesses in American twentieth century economy are Rogers' chapters on the anti-inflationists, the perennial budget-balancers, and on the rapid growth of interstate commercial restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving a contracted credit situation. In a one-act play, he gives a cross section of public reasoning on the inflation question, which is dominated by Al Smith's "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars!" Possibly Professor Rogers' most valuable discussion is that which deals with the national...
...there is a limited number of voluntary patients who are chosen directly by the Surgeon General. Rehabilitation is mainly psychological, based on the principle of "sympathetic treatment," for practically all elaborate physical "cures" are either useless or positively harmful. Only method which has given good results is a rapid reduction over four to ten days of the amount of narcotics the addict is accustomed to take (known to addicts as the "iron-cure"). Restlessness is overcome by several ten-minute warm baths a day. This treatment reduces the addict's excruciating withdrawal pains. Patients in Lexington engage in various...
...remarkable series of drawings showed the progression of schizophrenia in an eleven-year-old girl, "Francine." Before she went to the hospital this little girl never drew. The first stages of her illness seemed to free an artistic gift: she made rapid and effectively caricatured sketches of nurses (see cut), instructors, patients. As her condition became worse, she lost even this contact with reality, and her last drawings were spidery, merely suggestive of form...
Machine rule has not only lost its adjustment function, but also has suffered from a changed temperament of the times, "Marx continues. This "changed temperament" is the "rapid evaporation of non-interventionist illusions of government" and the "Conservationist tendencies supplanting the carefree indifference toward social squandering...