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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Alice Thistle bought a coat, was 1) puzzled, 2) dismayed, 3) appalled by its pungent odor. Said she: "I suffered social embarrassment." Said her mother: "She sits and broods for hours." Said a doctor: "She is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown." Reason: When the coat was sent to the cleaners, a dead mouse was extracted from the collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

While I'd certainly be reluctant to change physical conditions with Robert Wadlow,I'd not mind changing mental and moral poise. He is as big in character as he is in stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Without mental peace I cannot properly, discharge my duties as ruler. ... I have married the lady I love from my heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Indore Sports | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Strangely enough, none of the women ever did better than 40 watts. This, said Dr. Ray, was due to the physical inability of women to store creatine, one of the bodily products from glycine. Whether glycine produced extra mental energy, Dr. Ray could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin Pep | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Most striking of all changes" was the increase in nervous and mental hospitals, which averaged only 350,000 patients a day in 1927, but over 550,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Hospitals | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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