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Great Depression
Great Depression in U.S. history, the severe economic crisis supposedly precipitated by the U.S. stock-market crash of 1929. Although it shared the basic characteristics of other such crises (see depression ), the Great Depression was unprecedented in its length and in the wholesale poverty and tr... Read more
depression
depression in economics, period of economic crisis in commerce, finance, and industry, characterized by falling prices, restriction of credit, low output and investment, numerous bankruptcies, and a high level of unemployment. A less severe crisis is usually known as a recession, a more common oc... Read more
Great Britain
Great Britain officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. Technically, Great Britain comprises England (199... Read more
United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) The UK has experienced the twentieth century as one of decline and fundamental transformation. At the beginning of the century, together with the USA it was the world's major power. Its British Empire reached dimensions unparalleled before or si... Read more
Walker Evans
Walker Evans 1903-75, American photographer, b. St. Louis. Evans began his photographic career in 1928. His studies of Victorian architecture and his photographs of the rural South during the Great Depression, made for the Farm Security Administration, are among his best-known works. Many of Evans'... Read more
hallucination
hallucination false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. Hallucinations play a prominent role in schizophrenia and in the mania st... Read more
panic
panic crisis in financial and economic conditions, marked by public loss of confidence in the financial structure. Panics are characterized by a general rush of investors to convert their assets into cash, with runs on banks and a rapid fall of the securities market. Bank failures and bankruptcies ... Read more
Strathmore
Strathmore , valley, c.55 mi (90 km) long and 5 to 10 mi (8-16 km) wide, Angus and Perth and Kinross, E central Scotland, running from northeast to southwest between the Grampians and the Sidlaw Hills. It has some of Scotland's best farmland, producing oats, barley, and hay. The name is sometimes ap... Read more
Arabah
Arabah or Araba , depression, on the Israel-Jordan border, extending c.100 mi (160 km) from the Dead Sea S to the Gulf of Aqaba; part of the Great Rift Valley complex. Limestone, salt, and potash are mined near the Dead Sea. In the Old Testament, Arabah is variously called a wilderness, a plai... Read more
Charles Edward Coughlin
Charles Edward Coughlin , 1891-1979, Roman Catholic priest in the United States, b. Ontario, Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto, 1916. After study at St. Michael's College, Toronto, he was ordained (1916) and became (1926) pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower at Royal Oak, Mich. In the 1930s he mad... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Great Depression"

Postpartum depression
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...symptoms of clinical depression (feelings of worthlessness...in conjunction with great demands for infant care...risk of postpartum depression for women who had a...a family history of depression — important...scale. A score of 12 or greater on the EPDS is considered...
Depression
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer Depression Description Everybody feels...diagnosed as having major depression only if certain symptoms...the disease. A note on depression and children with cancer...Doctors and nurses can do a great deal to help a depressed...
Depression, Economic
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...more recent instance of a depression in an advanced economy was...from 1990 till 2005. The Great Depression was by far the most extreme...debate about the causes of depressions focuses upon it. However...either full employment or depression began at the dawn of economics...
depression
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...enough, it can turn into a depression. Neither term has ever been...necessarily occur in every depression, but lack of confidence...an economic downturn. A depression develops when overproduction...remedial action by governments. Depressions and recessions today tend...crash, the failure of a ...
Depression, Psychological
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Depression, Psychological Depression is a common psychiatric disorder that places a great burden on society. Major depressive disorder...hopelessness). Subtypes of MDD include atypical depression (characterized by weight gain and an increase...
Great Depression and New Deal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Great Depression and New Deal For millions of American children and teens the Great Depression brought years of hardship and...that initially the economic crisis of the Great Depression was an educational crisis as...
Great Depression
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Great Depression in U.S. history, the...see depression ), the Great Depression was unprecedented...s productive capacity was greater than its capacity to consume...Franklin Delano Roosevelt did a great deal to mitigate the effects...
Depression and World War II, 1929–1945 (Overview)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II, 1929 – 1945...dispossessed. The nation was mired in the Great Depression (1929 – 1939), which continued...revive the economy. The causes of the Great Depression were complex and rooted in...
Great Depression, Causes of (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History GREAT DEPRESSION, CAUSES OF (ISSUE) After the presidential election of Herbert C. Hoover...economic system was not as sound as it appeared to be — soon the great collapse began. The most crucial barrier to U.S. economic health was...
middle-latitude tropospheric circulations
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...are accustomed to much greater changes in the weather...are an integral part of depressions. Horizontal variations...difference. The region of greatest temperature difference...It is at this front that depressions usually develop. The depressions gain energy from the temperature...gradient ...

Dictionary entries related to "Great Depression"

Great Depression
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History GREAT DEPRESSION GREAT DEPRESSION, the longest, deepest, and most pervasive depression in American history, lasted from 1929 to...economic calamities in history. In previous depressions, such as those of the 1870s and 1890s, real...
depression
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...characterized by such feelings to a greater degree than seems warranted...the Depression or the Great Depression ) the financial and industrial...reducing of something: the depression of prices. ∎...pressing down on something: depression of the plunger delivers...surface: the ...
Depression, the Great
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Depression, the Great (1929–32...also explain the severe depression that followed. Banks...economy. In total, the depression led to a sharp increase...the depression led to greater economic involvement...
Depression
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History DEPRESSION DEPRESSION. See Great Depression .
Advice to the Unemployed in the Great Depression (11 June 1932, by Henry Ford)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ADVICE TO THE UNEMPLOYED IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION (11 June 1932, by Henry Ford) The decade before the Great Depression was one of unprecedented economic...Shafer , Cornell University See also Great Depression ; Unemployment . I have always...
Depression, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Depression, the the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years, also known as the Great Depression .
Ulcerative Colitis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...often associated with it (depression, regression), and its...difficulty." Thus, to a greater degree than with other organic...different from the reactive depression of the disorder. This depression, sometimes carried along...ulcerative colitis shows a great resemblance in behavior...
Psychoanalytic Nosography
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...for this level yielded the greatest degree of explanation. Yet...different ways, the notions of depression, psychosis, and delusion...was subsequently limited to depression alone. At this point Freud...about the essential nature of depression, Freud took classical melancholia...
Depressive Position
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...is then lost, a persisting depression rather than normal mourning...core experience of clinical depression, and was Klein's addition...Freud and Abraham's work on depression. However, the depressive...developing infant may have great difficulty in accepting these...
Sweden
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...the rest of Europe, the Great Depression triggered a social consensus...public works in periods of depression. Taxes were raised to pay...the effects of the Great Depression. However, the coincidence...challenged by the series of world depressions that set in with the 1973...further ...

Thesaurus entries related to "Great Depression"

depression
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus depression • noun  ...seems to be suffering from depression synonyms : unhappiness...xA0; 2. an economic depression synonyms : recession, slump...standstill; stagnation; the Great Depression; Economics stagflation...
retrospective
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus retrospective • adjective  the government introduced retrospective legislation synonyms : backdated, retroactive, ex post facto. • noun  a two-hour retrospective on the Great Depression synonyms : look back, reflection, review.
sorrow
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...pain, woe, affliction, wretchedness, dejection, heaviness of heart, desolation, depression, disconsolateness, mourning.   2. one of the great sorrows of his life synonyms : trouble, worry, woe, misfortune, affliction, trial...

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Depression in an evolutionary context.(Commentary)
Magazine article from: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine; 2/29/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...in red blood cells. Depression is an emotional state...we are to understand depression in relation to evolution...emotion in relation to depression as it is the emotion...depressed [6]. Of even greater significance is the genetic...
Depression: rates in women, men ... and stress effects across sexes.
Magazine article from: Science News; 6/3/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...accounting for their higher depression rate, Levav proposes...theorize that women have high depression rates in part because they...and worry that triggers depression up to 6 months later, they argue. A greater number of women than men...
Depression at Christmas - Is there a cloud over your festive season?
PR Newswire; 12/19/2002; 700+ words ; ...care. Background: Surviving Depression at Christmas With the festive...or worsen, an episode of depression. For those affected by depression, Christmas can be the very...more acutely when faced with greater socialising around them...
Depression, smoking divulge ties that bind. (common factors foster depression and smoking)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/30/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...cigarette smokers develop severe depression substantially more often than...people with a history of severe depression stand a greater chance of getting hooked on...severe depression faced a much greater likelihood of becoming dependent...
Depression in African-American patients with kidney disease
Magazine article from: Journal of the National Medical Association; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the differing prevalence of depression reported from different areas...populations in the US.4 Depression is associated with excess...ESRD roughly three-fold greater than whites (four-fold...growing groups. Although depression has been regarded as the most...
DEPRESSION AMONG MOTHERS WITH PRETERM INFANTS AND THEIR STRESS-COPING STRATEGIES
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS; Cox, Holden...was found in the level of depression between the two groups. The...preterm infants experience greater levels of depression than...Preterm babies are at greater than usual risk for child...
DEPRESSION AMONG TURKISH FEMALE AND MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...aimed to examine (1) the depression levels of university students, and whether or not depression levels of university students...in ordinary activities, great sadness, feelings of guilt...to depression has gained great importance. In research...
CONQUERING DEPRESSION
Transcript from: ABC Good Morning America; 3/17/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Henry Ford Medical Center Major depression, or clinical depression, is a disease, and it's...structure in patients with depression. He found that depressed patients...larger lateral ventricles, and greater disease in the subcortical...
Depression Screenings Provide Sufferers With First Step in Helping to Prevent Future Episodes; National Depression Screening Day Encourages Early Diagnosis.
PR Newswire; 10/9/2003; 700+ words ; ...one thinks about things. Depression is not the same as a passing...thought to be implicated in depression, generalized anxiety disorder...SAD) trials (incidence greater than or equal to 10% and greater than or equal to 2x that of...
Depression in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Magazine article from: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...is a risk factor for depression. Rates of depression in AMD are substantially greater than those found in...that the prevalence of depression increased as visual...The prevalence of depression was also high among...depression are substantially greater than the rate found...