Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have done three years in succession, besides paying for six other subscriptions as Christmas presents to friends. I read the magazine with the utmost concentration, trying to fix in my memory, during two hours reading each week, the thousands of facts you furnish me in each issue. The mental effort, time and money I have always considered well invested...
...Mental hospitals of the U. S. contain nearly 300,000 inmates; about 75,000 new ones enter yearly. What to do about them and how to prevent their increase were problems discussed last week in Manhattan by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene...
Harvard's chances of scoring through Yale's powerful line do not appear very good but there are other ways to score. With Harvard's mental attitude at the right level and provided Captain Pratt's lineman play hard, charging, determined football, I look for a closely contested battle, with Yale on the winning side, but as I have indicated before, with the Crimson given a slim fighting chance to eke out a narrow victory...
...stands as the final whistle blew and the sun shot its last rays over the colonades. There were two possibilities. Either the goal posts would go after a vicious struggle, or the goal posts would stand after an equally titanic contest. One implied physical effort, the other a mental battle. Both were in a way unsatisfactory. If the victors took the wooden standards they were unconscionably rude. If they left them alone they were incredibly indifferent. Their dilemma, however, was soothing to the less fortunate and poorer. It left some thing to say. Now that it is all gone, steel...
...first twelve chapters concern the source of the ideas, the opinions, the prejudices which now, being the common property of every American mind, explain the mental character of the U. S. The most important book in the schools was McGuffey's Eclectic Reader (of which there have been 122,000,000 copies sold). McGuffey, a gentle old pedant who received $1,000 for each of the six Readers in his series, remained a shadowy figure to his multitudinous public; for his death in 1873 no literary reviews, no editorial pages were boxed in heavy black. He remained, even...