Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf...
...room. Mr. O's eye was upon him and that boy was sent to get more exercise, more fresh air. Except for a real excuse, every boy had to play football and Mr. O went to the field every day to watch one and all, issue brusque suggestions, take mental notes to pass on to parents...
Those who follow the progress of modern invention eagerly will find here what architectural problems lie behind discovery and scientific progress. These problems are considered in the light of the mental rather than the historical developments of the last three centuries. The modification of the old concepts of an order in nature, matter, space, time, continuity, interaction, induction, and atomism by the newer ones of the molecular theory, the quantum theory and relativity to form a new, harmonious system, is, in the last analysis, the main theme of this cosmology...
...there are two sides to every question. Some people just are not good at climbing gates", and even for those who are, a row of iron spikes ten feet above the ground offers a considerable mental hazard at nine o'clock at night. By three the risk becomes positively physical...
...with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces that instability of temperament, emotional pressure and restive impulsiveness which are the earmarks of genius.-Dr. Ernest Kretschmer, University...