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...German army was a good laboratory example, Dr. Kalinowsky told the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week. After World War I, which produced many "shell-shock" cases, German psychiatrists concluded that the neuroses were caused less by battle experiences than by secondary mental processes, e.g., the wish to escape from danger, and resentment of comfortable civilians. By 1926, pensions were a factor in these neuroses. Thereafter, Germany denied pensions to many shell-shock victims...
...Chattanooga Times; Judith, 26, a doctor married to Dr. Matthew Rosenschein Jr.; and one son, Arthur ("Punch"), 24, who married a New York Times office girl, served in the Marines and is now a junior at Columbia. When control passes to the four the Times will suffer no financial shock from inheritance taxes; shrewd Mr. Ochs arranged for them to be paid when the trust...
Some of the rats adjusted easily to show business. Others suffered from strain and grew jumpy and neurotic. A few died of shock or were killed and eaten by their hardier fellows...
...constantly meeting travelers who . . . are puzzled that Italians gossip in their churches, kiss behind a pillar, spit in the aisles . . . wheel a bicycle in one door and out another. These observers are equally shocked by the sight of unshaven friars with faces like pirates, begging nuns in the capital of Christendom, gaudy and grubby dolls, tinsel bambinos, baby Virgins and the like in lovely quattrocento churches cheek by jowl with exquisite sculpture; and when I say that I find these bambinos both horrible and funny, even this will probably shock; as if religion were not sometimes so funny that...
Although the cheers were justified, Cripps's dollar triumph was not an unqualified victory. Said the Manchester Guardian next day: ". . . We probably need not fear any major shock during the rest of the year, but the 'breathing space' will not be prolonged forever . . ." One trouble was that the surplus had been achieved more by cutting imports than by increasing exports. Most of the actual dollar earnings were made by sterling areas other than Britain, e.g., Malaya, Australia, British West Africa...