Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Oliver Burgess ("Buzz") Meredith. 29, actor (Winterset, High Tor) ; by his second wife, Margaret Perry, 25, actress (Strictly Dishonorable); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel at 7 a. m. one morning last week, the Institute sprang Lesson No. 1 on 60 students, mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental showerbath." As the pupils nodded over grapefruit, cereal, ham & eggs, coffee (price: $10), he revealed his formula: "1) Separate facts from opinions and look at the facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump...
...Under new conditions, the American people as a whole nation, the original thirteen States and all the West and South that has grown out of them, is on a mental migration, dissatisfied with old conditions, seeking like the little band that came to Marietta, to create new conditions-of security...
...each nation presented its views, it became clear that there were two funda mental splits to be bridged before a plan could be put into effect...
...mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less to fear from individual than from cooperative selfishness...