Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's advice to bankers: "This depression will be shortened largely to the degree that you feel you can instill into your clients . . . a feeling of assurance. . . . The very atmosphere of your offices will affect the mental attitude and . . . courage of the individuals who depend upon you for counsel and money...
...Hadden, associate neurologist of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, reminded his associates that inflammation of the brain is a frequent cause of children's misdemeanors, that they often develop anti-social tendencies and lose their sense of responsibility, with little or no impairment of their other mental faculties. Such children may develop into "master criminals." Dr. Hadden advised that they be sent to special training schools, but not to asylums...
...crooned through the anthem could be crooned through the medium of the microphone and loudspeaker straight into the hearts of his adoring public. However the department foolishly overlooked this chance of placing Harvard's name before millions to whom it would otherwise have registered blank except perhaps for a mental picture of a well-known five cent cigar. Anyone must grant that the image of a collegiate matinee idol is far more beneficial to the man in the street than a mental picture of a five cent cigar...
...never let it be uttered, that the Vagabond, erudite gentleman that he is, forthwith abandoned his quest. Not so. Instead he made a valiant effort to get in the mood for these mental hazzards. For instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over...
With Dr. Fulton and Dr. Eugen Kahn of Munich, Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene at Yale, Dr. Dusser de Barenne is the third major appointment recently made at Yale in the sciences underlying the study of individual behavior...