Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance. The establishment of democracy, which meant the destruction of the "divine right" idea, at once removed the strongest aid of religion and destroyed the most palpable symbol of traditional Christianity. With the rise of industrialism the number of people who have no constant need of the mental assurance which religion provides has increased enormously...
...York's Doctor-Senator Copeland last week told the American Hospital Association in Detroit: "During his four years at Albany, Governor Roosevelt has gained physically, shaking off every important vestige of his serious illness. His lameness never has borne any possible relationship to his mental welfare. It is no more than a trifling physical handicap. His expectancy of life is greater than President Hoover...
...admits ''it seems that I am a man without any marked talents." He wrote his autobiography under the common desire to understand and justify his own existence. Son of an Irish sailor, Shaughnessy-Sullivan had little formal schooling, thinks he missed nothing but "a prodigious waste of mental energy." He got a good job early, with an electrical manufacturing company. His job and his fellow-workers roused his interest in science. He put himself through London University, emigrated to the U. S., returned for the War which "completely reorganized my life." Music struck him all of a heap...
...Well, I think it would be safe to say that a very large percentage of all business transactions are made under the heading of mental reservations, if that is a mental reservation, which, of course...
...Author. Like his hero, Kurt Heuser is young (27). He suffered from Europe's mental depression and took his gloomy thoughts to Africa. While he and a friend struggled with a cotton plantation in Portuguese East Africa, Heuser filled his spare time writing, sent the result apologetically to German editors. When cotton's market price sank below cost, Heuser abandoned his plantation, went home to Germany to be an author, found himself taken as a lion out of Africa...