Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glance into the pages of history certainly should convince one that the famous beauties of the World were never lacking in native intelligence and shrewdness. . . . To emulate the achievements of any of the noted beauties of the world requires a pretty highly-geared mental equipment...
Divorced. William Ashley Sunday Jr., son of the hot-shouting evangelist; by Mrs. Julia Mae Sunday; at Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...Steinach made a cautious suggestion to experimental biologists: "One may imagine that mental undevelopment might partially be related to the insufficient secretion of natural irritants required by the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is possible that diseases of the central nervous system are psychical anomalies which may be due to the lack of this stimulating secretion. In such cases therapeutic experiments with such an excitant might be attempted...
...legal system, Harvard opens this fall the work of the new Institute of Criminal Law, whose Director is Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Harvard Law School. To assist Professor Sayre, Professor Sam Bass Warner comes to Harvard from the University of Syracuse and Mr. Sheldon Glueck, author of "Mental Disorders and the Criminal Law", becomes Assistant Professor of Criminology and assumes a position on the staff of the new Institute. Assistant Professor John Joseph Burns of the Harvard Law School will collaborate with Professor Sayre in the Institute...
What is such a "first solo" experience? In a sense, always much the same. In 1918--in 1929. Wartime or peacetime. Army or business. A mental hazard-the "wind up" fear of the unknown and of self-then a man "comes through" according to whatever he has in him to draw upon...