Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other facts: there are 187 fewer "approved" hospitals than last year; 504 hospitals last year lost their "approved" rating; hospitals for nervous and mental cases are increasing more rapidly than all other types combined; nervous and mental cases hospitalized increased from 349,667 in 1927 to 395,407 last year; "by 1934 we will have more than 500,000" such cases. The proportion of hospital beds in constant use was 65.5%, lowest ever found by this survey...
...real mother and his foster-mother. These faults are not important. Sarah and Son is a vigorous and moving story, properly told. It covers a long period, and the arrangement of time, perhaps the most difficult problem in building a cinema, is worked out naturally in the physical and mental changes of the central character, Ruth Chatterton. She uses, for instance, a German accent, very marked in the beginning, then less strong, finally no more than the faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish...
...potentialities." Great example: Leonardo da Vinci. The normal person, he declared, was developed to his biological limit. He believes, for instance, continual selfconscious attention to olfactory sensations would finally render a man's nose as keen as a dog's; that similar results could be obtained with other mental, physical, emotional potentialities. Most famed Institutee: the late Katherine Mansfield, who died of advanced consumption (1924) at the Institute. Other onetime Institutees: Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson (onetime editors of the late Little Review...
...John Augustine Ryan, professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America told the House Committee: "Prohibition confuses the mental processes of high officials. Speaking of moral law, President Hoover was attempting [when he cited citizens' moral obligation to support the 18th Amendment] to state a moral principle which was none of his business. He is no more of a moral authority than I am. Let him not lay down dogmatically the law that good citizens should tell others what they should do. The President is no supreme arbiter of the moral duty...
...seems to Dr. Freeman that those people who are susceptible to the same mental upsets are susceptible to the same companionate bacterial or chemical griefs. The more certain this theory becomes, the closer it grows (after more post mortem studies) to a medical law, the better doctors can prognosticate and prevent disease...