Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality. Therefore the presence in Manhattan last week of a young Vienna psychiatrist, who cures such disoriented wits by means of insulin, created great stir among doctors, great hopes among relatives of schizophrenics...
...York Academy of Medicine he frankly declared that he does not know how and why his cure works, that it is indubitably effective. He has cured hundreds of cases of schizophrenia at his Vienna clinic by means of insulin injections. Dozens have been cured in private and public mental hospitals in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, England. Young Dr. Joseph Words of Manhattan, who brought the insulin treatment for schizophrenia to the U. S. two years ago, paved the way for Dr. Sakel's appearance in Manhattan, has had about a dozen cures in the past few months...
...actors with rights to share in the picture's profits. The Eternal Mask won a prize, for "originality of theme," at last summer's Venice Exposition. Last week, released in the U. S. with English subtitles, it was hailed by critics as the ablest cinema study of mental aberration since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...
Wary of the educational anarchists who denounce any form of test as tending to prostitute pure mental development, Investigator Kandel noted in his report that recently many marking systems have been thoroughly overhauled and newer, more comprehensive essay-type examinations substituted for mere yes-&-no tests. Nevertheless, concluded he: "What is clear from the use of tests is that there is no single measure for predicting educational success...
...educational windfall since 1924 when Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke established his Duke Endowment (present value approximately $53,000,000), dropped last week in Manhattan when the will of Banker Charles Hayden (TIME, Jan. 18) set aside the bulk of his $50,000,000 for tune for "the moral, mental and physical wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young...