Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student health (emotional, mental, spiritual, physical) : the Advisers tried to discover what conditions were needed to make the College a healthful place. "They have little success to report...
...foundations with an estimated $950,000,000 total capital. In 19-30 they spent $18,627,223 (2%): against cancer $17,529, pneumonia $25,000, heart disease $3,800, children's diseases $605,898, mental disease $936,000, optical ailments $75,416, diphtheria $65,000, tuberculosis $39,885, disease in general...
...United States has just rounded out a truly amazing decade. Most everyone is aware of a number of changes and remembers that much went on, but few have a complete mental picture such as this book gives. Racing madly from topic to topic through 350 highly compressed pages, Mr. Allen still can only touch on the high spots. But the quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy...
...Liberalization of the church's attitude on divorce, sanctioning as grounds for divorce not only adultery but any other "vicious conditions" of "mental or physical peril...
Chatterton, whose acknowledged forte is registering the anguish of a broken heart, goes through strangely little mental suffering in her current opus, a light comedy so-called, in which she is ably supported by one George Brent. The whole picture though tenuous, is well written, almost always amusing and is excellently played throughout. Dealing as it does with the light whims and vanities of a super-glided Park Avenue aristocracy it could hardly be shown to an audience of unemployed steel workers in Pittsburg without precipitating the downfall of the capitalistic classes, but to those who take the Hollywood conception...