Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Structurally or functionally speaking, TIME left itself wide open for a sock on its figurative cranium when describing the physical and mental examination of teachers (March 7) as extending "from toe to cerebellum...
...young Manhattan Poet Muriel Rukeyser. Living in the nation's richest city, she is pinched by a sense of waste: a waste of spirit matching a material waste. To remedy the latter she counts on radical reform, if not revolution; to remedy the former she counts on mental and emotional continence. To help remedy both at once she writes poems that are at once radical and continent...
Gardner Murphy '17, who worked with Dr. L. T. Troland at Harvard on the problem on mental telepathy and who left recently to continue his studies at Columbia, has come out strongly for ESP (extra-sensory-perception...
Concerning the current experiments in mental telepathy-Huntington says, "The implications involved in the existence of ability to obtain knowledge of external facts through channels other than the usual five senses are clearly of startling importance for all our scientific and philosophic thinking...
Except during his seven months in a mental hospital, which he described in Asylum, big, credulous, 52-year-old William Seabrook has never found in the U. S. the kind of people he likes to write about most-devil worshipers, whirling dervishes, cannibals. In These Foreigners, a study of foreign-born Americans, Author Seabrook finds a suitable compromise. Popular, readable, with a minimum of round-figure footnotes, his book picks only the "non-statistical, humaninterest" highlights...