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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entire inadequacy of slab artists in the face of heavy sluggers, batters as clay in the hands of stellar pitchers, and an all around exhibition of mental and physical weakness, such as Soldiers Field has not seen since the days of Eric the Red, brought expected defeat to the Lampoon hosts yestere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Batsmen Slug Lampoon "Funny" Men In Easy Baseball Win | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Zenith Foundation experiments over the radio show that mental telepathy answers averaged more nearly correct than might be expected on the basis of pure chance as determined by ordinary statistical methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...year-old cinemactor who once threatened to become an opera singer, has appeared in only one minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With unbroken fortitude he has endured the shattering fall from his high estate and faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Substantial and Punitive | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid of death. In general, the less intelligent freshmen worried more than their mental superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Battle on Rhine | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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