Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preponderance of answers indicated the following results since Prohibition: 1) better furnished homes; 2) a larger proportion of husband's income spent on families; 3) marital relations improved; 4) more sanitary homes; 5) "mental health" better in homes; 6) less children's delinquency; 7) fewer cases of malnutrition among children; 8) liquor less accessible to children; 9) more drinking by young people; 10) less respect for law. "It cannot be too strongly insisted in evaluating such results that they are likely to reflect the bias of the person making the replies. On the other hand, it will be noted...
Souls for Sables. The heart sinks at such a title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
...inside page five pictures of Mr. Thaw were published: AS DANDY, AS SLAYER, AS FUGITIVE, AS BOY BEATER, AS FIREMAN. Two more photographs meaningly compared his features with those of Harrison Noel, mentally delinquent protagonist of a murder trial now occupying national attention. A chronological table of Thaw's misdemeanors bore the title: "Highlights in the story of wealth, mental decay, vicious living, murder and insane asylums, depicting the life of Harry K. Thaw. . . The Rip Van Winkle of the Bright Light District is hitting it up again. . . His bloated face and protruding eyes mark him as he reels...
...Dearborn, Professor of Education and Acting Dean of the School of Education, to allow him to devote himself to the supervision of the major research enterprise of the Graduate School of Education, "an investigation of the mental and physical development of school children by means of annually repeated measurements of several thousands of the same individuals from the time of their entrance into school to the time of the completion of their formal education...
...have the greatest contempt for the way they teach at Oxford. The only things of any value there are the games that are played. The modern young man has no mental discipline. He thinks he can learn all about everything from casual conversation instead of from books. That is impossible. My advice to him is to read, read, read...