Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preconceived surmise; we guide the image around our minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left shrouded, only to smother, in the minds of men, material that might have had illimitable influence...
...through the study of geology, or the influence of surface conditions upon our lives as treated by geography, why should we not find equal interest in a knowledge of the true nature of planetary motions and of the secrets of the starry realms? To those who would expand their mental horizon beyond the barriers of the earth and would have a keener appreciation of man's place in the universe, the subject of astronomy is addressed...
...this process of expanding his mental horizon, however, the student of astronomy does not isolate himself from contact with problems that concern his existence as a terrestrial being. The astronomer needs must look around him as well as above his head. For the study of the physical characteristics of the stars carries one into the realm of atomic physics and spectroscopic theory. The astronomical treatment of the earth as a planet necessarily requires the assistance of geology. The motions of the planets provide the application of the laws of dynamics in a somewhat more complex state of affairs than that...
This is the physical side. There is besides the mental horror of remorse of the murderer who killed without hate, "by order...
...briefly down to date, explaining that a complete campus slang dictionary "would probably fill a ponderous tome." At Miami University alone, it recalled, a survey by the English department revealed 103 terms for intoxication, 56 "ways of directing undesirables to take their leave," 62 names for Fords, 174 "undesirable mental conditions...