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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of the Exeter debate which occurs Friday, February 24, is "Resolved: That only students of superior mental ability be admitted to the Liberal Arts Colleges." These selected for this debate after the Union tryouts last night are Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, R. M. Cohen '36, A. G. Sullivan '36, and as alternate, F. E. Sweetser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOWELL SELECTS TEAMS FOR FRESHMAN DEBATES | 2/17/1933 | See Source »

...that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some of the early American reproductions made in her furniture shop at Hyde Park. Mrs. Hoover told her that she had had government photographers taking pictures of every room in the house. Likewise all White House furniture has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground, "no art or trade is as taxing in mental resource...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Great Lady's Death | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fever Chart | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...private practice," Miner said, "many nervous conditions have responded favorably to the removal of dental disease. Not long ago a young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/25/1933 | See Source »

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