Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian Science Mother Church (The First Church of Christ, Scientist) in Boston, last week changed the name of their organization to the Church of Universal Design. More, they renounced Mrs. Eddy as discoverer of their cult. In her place they put Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Portland (Me.) clockmaker and "mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science Church, deputy leader of the Church of Universal Design*: "The term Christian Science has been brought into widespread disfavor through...
...charge had been made with polite, scathing contempt by no less a personage than J. B. S. Haldane, famed Cambridge biochemist (TIME, March 29, 1926). In reviewing the Earl's latest best seller, The World in 2030, Mr. Haldane observed that a sort of mental telepathy must exist between his common head and the belted Earl's, since he recognized in no less than 44 passages ideas similar to the ones he had expressed in his essay of scientific prophecy Daedalus...
...applicants for the freshman class and the dean or other officer have become more constant and searching. Some colleges are asking graduates to offer testimony regarding the availability of candidates. The colleges, too, are giving increased heed to the health of students, especially in respect to what is called mental health. No less than twenty-two institutions have established special facilities for getting and for evaluating this important knowledge and for giving much-needed guardianship to those who are or may become...
Numbers. Every other bed in U. S. hospitals is occupied by a mental case. By 1970 there will be a million such cases, or 635 for every 100,000 people in the U. S. In 1880 there were only 63 per 100,000. Explanation: the wear-&-tear of an increasingly rushing civilization; public recognition that mental ills must be treated as well as bodily ills.?Dr. William Alanson White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, president of this International Congress...
...Compensatory damages for actual loss of business, employment, etc., resulting from the defamatory publication. Punitive damages: additional recovery, on grounds of malice or gross negligence, to punish the offender and render mental and moral satisfaction to the victim.† The 6? verdict, awarded where the plaintiff's technical rights have been violated without considerable material damage, has precedent in old English law. A usual award in such cases was threepence, the smallest silver coin, U.S. money equivalent...