Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the physicist wants to ascertain stress, he bows to the memory of Robert Hooke*, measures all the forces involved. and from them calculates the amount of pressure or tension in inanimate matter. up to the breaking point. Doctors have no such easy time of it. Ever since Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye announced his theory of how stress causes disease through the "general adaptation syndrome" (TIME. Oct. 9, 1950), physicians have recognized that people can get serious illnesses simply from the "stress" put on the system by emotional pressures, shock, physical fatigue, or even bad eating habits...
...their January issue, the editors of Britain's 86-year-old medical journal, The Practitioner, have tried to cram the available information on stress and its medical importance into an 80-page nutshell. The experts reporting on stress include Dr. Selye himself, specialists in rheumatic diseases, heart diseases and psychiatry, and the Rt. Rev. William Greer, Anglican Bishop of Manchester, who reports that stress can have spiritual as well as temporal origins...
...Loving kindness can make as much difference to the growing rat as to the developing child, said Psychologist Otto Weininger of Toronto. Laboratory rats that he petted and fondled grew faster and bigger, and resisted stress better than their brother rats...
...generally not until the beginning of adolescence that a boy gives overt signs of it. At this stage, responsibility lies most heavily upon the parents. They need to know that in every human personality there are both masculine and feminine traits, and that puberty, being a time of great stress and adjustment, is also a time for experimentation...
...longer do the Southern defenders of segregation take their stand with Ben Tillman on the flat assertion of racial superiority. Nowadays they stress the "practical" consequences of mixed schools. Last week John W. Davis told the court that Clarendon School District No. 1 in South Carolina has 2,799 Negro and 295 white Children of school age. If these children are mixed, the schoolrooms will contain nine Negro children to each white child. Asked John Davis: "Would that make the children any happier? Would they learn any more quickly? Would their lives be more serene...