Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International Business has reached, for the first time since the war, the level of 1913. ... As a matter of fact, the weakness of the franc and lira is not by any means a symptom of any prevalent European infirmity; it is simply the last vestige of prolonged convalescence. Sterling exchange was well able to stand the strain of the recent general strike and there has been a steady gratifying recovery of Scandinavian, Dutch, Japanese and other important exchanges, despite the loud clamor for "managed currencies" and other fiscal "quackery."-Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign...
...would, hence, be hard to consider the journalistic evils of our time as fit subjects for execration or ingenious reform. They are rather a symptom of a state and condition of society which is to be met and considered not alone in a dissemination of the news, but in industrial strife, in social stratification, and increasingly in political agitation...
This pitiful, crazy world lasted eleven years, until Virginia died. Poe then rushed from one "soulful" woman to another, vainly seeking fresh refuge. He soon died insane, bigamously engaged but still carnally innocent. Convulsive fits of drinking throughout his life had been not a cause but a secondary symptom of his deep malady. The operation of this malady, the astonishing dexterity of his subconscious defensive tactics, are traced through all phases of Poe's life in startling fashion-his braggadacio debts at the roystering University of Virginia, his self- inflicted infantry career, his self-arranged expulsion from West Point...
...Pygmalion, Dr. Wilson is at great pains to have us distinguish between a symptom of disease and an effect or result of disease. He heralds the return of the general practitioner to study a sick man in the light of his whole environment, to assign to specialists their particular duties in the case...
...replace the high ideals of democracy, small wonder that college undergraduates lose interest. International peace is almost the only field of thought remaining where ideals have any standing. If the Princeton conference represents an authentic manifestation of student interest in the world court, it is at least one encouraging symptom promising thoughtful, liberal leadership in the future...