Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they escape Paris) when at last they are on the trail. Trail is rather a strong word to use, for the wanderings were directed mainly by the valley of the Dinder. Streeter manages to keep us with him on his wanderings and one might almost say in his mental wanderings as well...
...valiantly evades and cunningly taboos critical-mindedness, sceptic enlightenment, disillusion (which is the beginning of wisdom), self-knowledge." This is rather a large program. Mr. Schmalhausen does not indicate how he is to complete it, and this reviewer never discovered from his book, perhaps merely because he lacks the mental acumen to follow the implications of the author's excursions off the beaten track...
...Gary system was installed by Superintendent William Albert Wirt, who last week was obliged to deal with the strikers. The system consists in a year-round school schedule for the purpose of fully utilizing school equipment; and in elective courses, elective vacations, informal grading and self-discipline-to promote mental initiative. In last week's strike, pupils who had presumably been thoroughly Garyized for the past several years, took the law into their own hands. Students of the Gary system recalled that one criticism of it was that it would decrease teachers' influence over pupils...
Died. Adrian Stokes, 40, famed London pathologist, "mental and physical giant," member of the Rockefeller Commission on yellow fever; at Lagos, West Africa; of yellow fever...
...showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have to get along without...