Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech on extension of the Government's rural housing program before the House of Commons, Megan Lloyd George had occasion to make a fast mental calculation. She announced the result with the qualification: "If my arithmetic is correct?" Her father, famed David Lloyd George, said: "Right." Replied Daughter Megan: "I thank my right honorable friend...
...fast much longer than I thought necessary. He came to see me on his weekly day of silence and therefore he wrote down all his questions, and such comments as what he thought of my tongue when I put it out at a gesture from him. I registered a mental vow that if ever a germ got down me again I would not let him know about...
...these circumstances, Italian Catholics who swear Fascist oaths and participate in pagan worship of the State are advised by the encyclical to do so with mental "reservations, such as 'safeguarding the laws of God and of the Church' or 'in accordance with the duties of a good Christian' with the firm proposal to declare also externally such a reservation if the need of it might arise...
Utopianissimist Herbert George Wells believes "Man is immortal, but not men. . . . Man ... is more important than the things in the individual life, and this I believe not as a mere sentimentality, but as a rigorously true statement of biological and mental fact. Our individuality is, so to speak, an inborn obsession from which we shall escape as we become more intelligent...
...special hospital, private or governmental, specializing in mental diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, orthopedics or some comparative feature of medicine...