Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaporings. Since January last, when the experts designated by the Reparations Commission began their secret deliberations, mankind has been pestered with mad, wild guesses on the part of neurotic journalists who have professed to have unimpeachable information regarding the unvoiced thoughts of each individual expert. Alas, this harmless mental vaporing is now démodé! Last week the experts presented their reports to the Reparations Commission which published them...
...only the oldest of the prehistoric man in America, but that they belong to the "true men," i.e., contemporaries and even more advanced in development than the Cro-Magnon race of Western Europe, 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, whom Henry Fairfield Osborn declares to have been the mental equals of college men of today. The Los Angeles finds, named the Haverty group in honor of the Irish contractor who found them, have brain cases as large as modern men; their last molar ("wisdom") teeth are underdeveloped as in civilized men; their stature was extraordinary, reaching seven feet...
...Belgian Government set up machinery at Antwerp to examine prospective emigrants to the U. S. The machinery consists of three commissions, administrative, medical, legal. These commissions will pass on all Belgian subjects desiring to emigrate to America, will conduct mental and physical examinations, as well as scrutinize the emigrant's documents. The object is to anticipate the proposal that the U. S. establish agencies in Europe to pass on the availability of immigrants under the so-called 3% quota...
...Breaking Point. An often impressive transcription of Mary Roberts Rinehart's book and play about amnesia, though it will leave the average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
Newspapers throughout the country, including The New York Times of Jan. 31, 1924, gave publicity recently to the announcement that one Pierson Worrall Banning of Los Angeles had been awarded ?2,500 as the Major Award of the Benjamin Franklin Fund for a book on Mental and Spiritual Healing. The announcement also said that Charles P. Steinmetz got the second award of ?1,000 for a privately published treatise The Nervous System as a Conductor of Electrical Energy and that a minor award had gone to a Japanese living in Tokyo. It was said that Banning's book...