Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether because of a discouraged tutor or a group of bored students, tutorial often fails to fulfill its potential. Sophomores interested in exploring their field become disillusioned. Tutors with a sense of mission are wasted, and the already ennui-stricken student sinks deeper into his intellectual stupor...
...freshman hockey team, which succumbed to post-exam stupor in losing its first game of the season to Brown last Saturday, will be looking for its seventh win when it faces the St. Paul's School varsity at Watson Rink today...
...heart continued to beat and his circulatory, respiratory and alimentary systems to function. That was in September 1944. Lodha's stupor lasted more than seven years, a fact that makes it extraordinary in medical history (most stupors last only a few months at most). During this time he never moved his limbs, opened his eyes or uttered a word. His sensations and deep reflexes were gone...
Lodha had been exonerated of the old charges while he lay in the stupor, but he took the news calmly. He became bright and cheerful once more. He could remember nothing of his seven-year sleep, was unaware that his father had died in the same house a few years earlier...
After studying his case, Bombay's Dr. Nalinkant Sunderji Vahia concluded that Lodha had suffered a catatonic stupor caused by a suppressed aggressive attitude toward the chief minister as they talked on the telephone. Without his family's remarkable care, Lodha might not have lived long. Yet doctors believe that victims of stupor respond more quickly if removed from their usual surroundings. Had Bhopalchand Lodha been treated in a modern hospital, they think, he might not have lost seven years of his life...