Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serviceman's wife writing thus to her husband probably suffers from a condition whose other symptoms include severe depressions, colitis, heart palpitations, diarrhea, frequent headaches. Described as a "new disease" by Dr. Jacob Sergi Kasanin, chief psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients. An estimated 2,500 women in San Francisco alone have undergone treatment for psychoneurosis during the past 18 months...
...Germans doubtless had borrowed strength from the south to mount their offensive in the north (see above). Last week U.S. Lieut. General Jacob Devers found weak spots in the Vosges mountains of northern Alsace, quickly seized the chance to invade Germany in his south-to-north assault aimed at the western Rhineland plain...
...Provider, by Thomas Mann, is the final volume of Mann's story of Joseph which tells in 2,005 pages what the Bible version tells in 21 pages. It contains Mann's usual solid, overlong discussions of history, religion and art, but its portraits of Pharaoh and Jacob are characterizations that the great novelist has never excelled...
Seemingly unable to gain a favorable decision, the Harvard Debate Council lost its fourth straight debate last Friday afternoon in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Edwin J. Jacob '47 and Thomson McGowan of the V-12 were defeated by an all-feminine team from Clark University in Worcester...
Another attempt to break into the win column will be made by the Council this afternoon when Edwin J. Jacob '47 and Thomson McGowan of the V-12 engage a visiting team from Clark University at 4 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...