Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outbreak of the War, he was made a prisoner. He escaped and fought with the Allies, was recaptured when wounded, and kept in an Austrian hospital where he used to baffle his ward-mates by playing blindfold matches with all of them at the same time. This was mental vacuity for Alexander Alekhine; a few years later in Paris he played 28 expert in the same fashion, setting a World's record for such feats...
Travel agencies justly emphasized the cultural values of voyage; might well have emphasized its benefits on mental health. Placid days, droning engines, cradling waves, roomy outlook?all these help to soothe troubled, taut spirits...
This situation the Chicago Tribune snatched at last week and brandished as a res horrenda, while it blared through the bass horn of its editorial columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this...
...Theory of Mental Discipline and the Value of School Studies: How the Theory of Discipline Bedevils Education," Professor Holmes, Lawrence...
...Theory of Mental Discipline and the Value of School Studies: How the Theory of Discipline Bedevils Education," Professor Holmes, Lawrence...