Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in a typical district under the direction of a typical manager. I take my hat off to him. . . . In no other job could I have such independence and, at the same time, done as well financially and have had such mental satisfaction which after all is that which counts most...
Divorced. Rexford Guy Tugwell, original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry...
...such sounds on his ears. When the sender was instructed to imagine that he was shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental shouting," the percentage of correct guesses dropped to the chance level. Dr. Kennedy felt that these results proved his point with crushing finality...
...year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene; $145,000,000 for erecting hospitals with 360,000 extra beds, maintaining free beds, promoting medical research. The delegates heartily approved...
Hankering after the good old days, but grateful for modern medical advancement, Hertzler's main grievances are against neurotic female patients, most assistant surgeons, meddling parsons, quacks, lawyers (malpractice suits "are dependent on the presence of a lawyer in a state of malnutrition"), believers in mental healing. During a tumor operation, when a patient's friend stood by repeating "You think you see something, but there is nothing there," "Pop" held himself in till he finished, then slammed the gory ten-pound tumor on her feet...