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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are the gloomy spots. Brighter is the fact that guard Dave Glueck is back and set to go, although withheld from contact work yesterday. Brightest of all is the mental attitude of the players; not one trace of last week's pessimism is evident, for they all know they gave their best, and when the breaks come, they are going to show the experts that writing about the "finis of the Big Three" is a lot of what they put on the grass to make it grow...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: CHIEF BOSTON OUT OF ARMY FRACAS WITH LEG INJURY | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

...many issues, then formed groups of four students each, with differing opinions, to discuss these questions. After the discussions he again tested them to find out how much each individual's opinion had changed, and whose opinion had prevailed. By examining these results, and then assaying the mental and personality traits of his subjects, he was able to tell what kind of person is influential in an argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Influential People | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Fannie Brice (real name: Fannie Borach), 46-year-old comedienne; from Billy Rose (real name: William Rosenberg), 37. diminutive producer of puffed-up shows; in Los Angeles. Charges: mental cruelty and desertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...chapter called "Tools and the Man," Dr. Lowell shows himself a member of the old school of thought, which believes strongly in mental discipline for its own sake. He favors the study of classics in secondary school as excellent mind training and self-education, and rather approves of the idea that the subject should contain more drudgery than interest. At a later time in discussing the minds of students, Dr. Lowell says they do not object to strict discipline in itself, particularly if they are responsible for the result. But he does not take into consideration the fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/6/1938 | See Source »

...Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English 30, or of Dewing when he thought of Ec. 61? Last year they did, but that was in the Old familiar room. When he had sat on his windowseat there, he knew that if he looked out he could just glimpse a corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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