Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though General von Ludendorff may be merely passing through a phase of mental aberration, he has been at least temporarily cold-shouldered by all of the political associates who, less than a year ago, acknowledged his leadership as head of an extreme Monarchist faction in the Reichstag...
...aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything of value in the way of breadth...
...Chief Justice thinks about 1908 in contrast to 1928, it is doubtful that his thought is political. A knowing newsman once said that the Taft bump of political sagacity was really a dent. True though that may be, there are more bumps than dents in the Taft makeup, mental as well as physical, and as he looks back from a double eminence never before achieved in the U. S., it may be that he sees far more than any politician of comparable age would...
...probably due to the fact that so much munching made his mouth tired and reduced his appetite. His weight declined 30 pounds. His muscular endurance sank far down, as did his basal metabolism, and his efficiency upon the typewriter. His blood pressure, pulse, temperature, sleeping time, and ability in mental multiplication remained unchanged by Fletcherism. The only beneficial effect he found in Fletcherism was a marked increase in his ability to solve chess problems...
Virginia and a baker's dozen of other U. S. states have laws providing for the sterilization of mental defectives. Passage of such laws is difficult. Mental hygienists, sociologists, doctors were obliged to argue tactfully with diffident legislators. When doctors tried to sterilize some of the defectives appeal was made to the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes curtly quieted objections. Said he: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Such laws are constitutional (TIME...