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...gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator shaft in the end or meet with any other fit (and customary) punishment, but the last scene indicates a total breakdown is near...
...original Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days," the ad said, "was an organization of heroes [which] served to protect life and property at a time when there was a complete breakdown of decent government. That condition does not now exist ... In our opinion, we do not need an organization which operates in concealment and ... is destructive to our democratic way of life...
...said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could be avoided, Alvarez thinks, if the doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy?" The answer might give the clue to an unhappy home or job that led to the nervous breakdown...
Snooty Reminder. Canton's municipal government, creaking and groaning under an extra load created by the mushrooming population (already estimated at more than 1,600,000), was on the verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward...
Cerebral palsy is caused by certain unexplained variations in brain structure, or by a breakdown in the brain motor centers from an injury before or during birth. Having no control over certain muscles, severe cases are often unable to perform such simple functions as speaking, walking, or feeding themselves. Cerebral palsy cannot be cured. The best that can be done is to train other parts of the brain to take over the duties normally performed by the injured or missing section...