Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to pointing out essential issues, whether in history, in literature, or in ethics, the Dunster House Forum has provided a rare occasion for valuable training in dialectic. Socratic dialectic is probably the most neglected mental discipline in the regular college course, and anything which encourages it is a useful stimulant of intellectual vigor...
...enlisted men of His Majesty's fighting forces the name "Fanny" conjures up a mental snapshot of rich, curvesome Dame Fanny Lucy Houston whose social equals call her "Lucy...
...playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned to join Sells-Floto Circus at a salary reputedly $15,000 per week. Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy activities have since included getting divorced by Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued for $13,000 by one John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while drunk Mix grappled with him, shook a large fist; getting sued by Col. Zack T. Miller for alleged jumping of a contract with Miller's now defunct...
...continuously and undipped for . . . more than 47 years," Francesco Mastrostefano sued Barber Reitano for $2,000. He alleged that Barber Reitano, "well knowing that said plaintiff did not wish the end of his said moustache cut. and wilfully and maliciously intending to cause said plaintiff disfigurement, humiliation, ridicule and mental and physical suffering and discomfort, did then and there with force and arms assault said plaintiff and laid hold of him and, placing a towel over his eyes to blindfold him, did . . . cut off both ends of his said moustache and closely crop same...
...soul emanation of the object, not the essence which the mind imposes upon it. When Rivers, the famous Mexican mural painter, draws a tractor, he does not delve into his folio for a model or into the store of his technical information for the knowledge, but relies upon his mental image, with the result that his machines though often crude and grotesque, are always recognizable and familiar...