Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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conversion. Not to be confused with the religious term. A symptom of mental sickness: an unfulfilled, unconscious desire causes a bodily ache, pain, etc. (e.g., an upset stomach because of a disappointment in love...
...study of mental illness did not make much progress in the 19th Century. Victorian doctors, concentrating on the microscope and on the autopsy table, were determined to find a physical reason for every illness. Fascinated by blood, bone and bowel, they decided that neuroses were caused by upset "nerves" or "brain." The treatment of mental illness lagged-with a few exceptions-until fairly recent times...
...upset if the routine of your life is disturbed...
...this much transpires, then one can begin to ruminate on an upset...
Eliot House came home with a close 12 to 6 victory over Lowell, and Dudley upset a strong Adams eleven, 12 to 7 yesterday, as the Inter-House football league roared full speed into its second day of play...