Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held to account. Wrote shrewd Mary Baker Eddy in Science & Health: ''Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustments of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation. Christian Science is always the most skillful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged. However, it is but just to say that the author has already in her possession well...
...wife was out to lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family in his absence had caused the kidnapping rumor. But James was present not only on family affairs. Before rushing out to buy a suit of oilskins for his father he made a mental note that the President was eating cereal, toast and orange juice, information that he made use of later that day in writing a syndicated press dispatch...
...fluttery days the women were permitted to roam the air station arm-in-arm with the flyers. For months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried...
OBELISTS AT SEA-C. Daly King- Knopf ($2). Gangsters and robbery, shooting and poison, autopsy and body-stealing on a great Atlantic liner make adequate background for the mental and physical activities of leading exponents of four schools of psychology...
...week that Mrs. Eddy had foretold present conditions in Science Or Health: "The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. . . . Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding...