Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most thrill mad auditor can hardly be dissatisfied with the amazing succession of mystery, murder, ghosts, darkness, weird noises off stage and weird doings on stage. The most skillful amateur detective will find enough mental exercise in the attempt to fathom the mystery. The most exacting audience can find little to criticise in the work of the St. James players. We were frankly prejudiced against Bernard Nedell when we found him cast for the role which belonged so logically to Houston Richards, but his performance was good enough to stifle our prejudice almost completely. It is one of his best...
...compounds (such as diphenylchloroarsine, diphenylcyonoarsine). In small concentrations, these gases have a sternutatory (sneeze causing) effect and in larger concentrations cause acute pain similar to but more violent than that caused by fresh water getting into the nose while bathing. An accompanying symptom is appalling mental distress and misery. They are rarely fatal, but very difficult to control with respirators, owing to the fact that the molecules, moving very slowly, can get through the walls of most masks in effective quantities...
...there is need and room in public office for the college man with his clear and logical mental processes. Is not the desire to hold public office as honorable as the aspiration for the ministry or medicine or law or the other professions? Yet we often find a timidity upon the part of college men to enter the arena of politics. Are the compensations adequate? This may be an important factor. A good lawyer can command greater fees in a single week than he would receive in an entire year in salary as a member of the President's cabinet...
There are also some courses, as for example English 72, where a degree of mental enthusiasm rather above first year standards is required to keep pace with the abundance of materials. The presence of an average Freshman or Sophomore does just so much to retard the progress of his scholastic superiors...
...numble poor, generally speaking, the breeders of defectives. Imbeciles and deformed are as likely to be born of the learned and the affluent. . . . Defectives, moreover, whether physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ and destined to share with the sound and the whole the vision of God for all eternity...