Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane." Nevertheless, Judge Smith took a look at the sleeping prisoner, declared: "The court doubts the sanity of the defendant." Therewith he postponed sentence until three more psychiatrists could pass on Helen Love's state...
...Mental testers define an individual's intelligence in many ways, usually as "the capacity for abstracting" or "the ability to meet new situations." One thing on which most agree, however, is that its quality or quantity does not change. Thirty years ago Professor Alfred Binet and a Sorbonne colleague, relying on this principle, devised the first widely used intelligence test. It consisted of a series of 54 questions, groups of which were to be given to children of various ages. The highest group a child could pass decided his mental age, which, when divided by his physical age, determined...
Blame for the murder of an eminent staff doctor of an impeccable mental hospital is not so easily put on an insane inmate when police learn that the victim was unloved by all of his associates...
...elder, who looked not unlike Professor Hopper except that he was shorter, claimed that he had been examined by mental specialists in several states and each time had been judged to be of a sound mind. Being subjected to the tests he considered part of the tribulations that a messenger of God could be expected to be subjected...
...Ethiopia. The two men had not met for five years and Mr. Miller found Dictator Mussolini "more mild . . . more genial. . . . His hair has thinned noticeably. . . . Commenting on his obvious appearance of health, I asked Mussolini to permit me to publish his personal rules for conserving his mental and physical health under constant strain...