Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality. Therefore the presence in Manhattan last week of a young Vienna psychiatrist, who cures such disoriented wits by means of insulin, created great stir among doctors, great hopes among relatives of schizophrenics...
Called dementia praecox because it strikes most victims between the "precocious" ages of 18 and 35, called schizophrenia because it reveals a split between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured soul attempts to hide. The victim loses his will power, his ability to concentrate, his memory, bis judgment. Extreme cases become more abject and helpless than sick infants. About 10,000 of the 40,000 schizophrenic cases who develop in the U. S. each year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas...
...departments. In 1931 the President's efforts to remove the Dean of Women excited a controversy disproportionate to the true importance of the affair. In 1935 the state was startled by a scandal involving the extention division of the University. A year later a fight in the athletic department split alumni and others into two embattled factions. His opponents charge that through Frank's neglect and vacillation the sparks struck by incipient friction have too often blazed into long and bitter strife...
Bunched at the first turn, the field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
...Clearing House to race track figures and began to set rigid deadlines for play, newspaper offices were constantly annoyed by attempts to bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed out to report the total before the real...