Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little foreign news, Mr. Roosevelt was hailed in whole pages of heartfelt Spanish eulogy for having brought Washington out on the side of Valencia. Cried Madrid's Informaciones: "There is not a paragraph in - President Roosevelt's speech which cannot be fully subscribed to by us without mental reservations or distinctions...
...Conant's plan provides the student with an educational impetus that will stir him long after his formal education is completed. The existence of a well defined program for independent work will do much to overcome the confusion and mental paralysis that seize men after graduation. Such study will both increase the value of what has gone before and provide another "open door" to the exploitation of new fields. The interaction between sustained study and everyday experience should produce a new and useful synthesis...
...Moreover, it is possible that these fields are not mere by-products of cellular activity, but are to some extent determining and guiding factors in development and living processes. ... It is possible that individuals can be grouped into classes on the basis of their electrical properties. . . . Emotional states and mental processes also could be studied and, if our present findings are significant, the result may well be exciting...
...average American, asked who John Jay Chapman was, might emerge from a mental merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from...
Charles A. Coolidge, Jr. '17: "Harvard shares, perhaps more than the rest of the community, the loss from Mr. Perkins' death. His complete mental honesty and directness, flavored with keen humor, kept him abreast with changing times and gave to his advice a wisdom which members of the Corporation, and those of the faculty who knew him, will sadly miss...