Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second" first mortgage bonds were issued on the Sylvania when the "first" first mortgage bonds were already in default. Sales Manager Eli Kindig said he sold them "with mental reservations...
Official recognition should be given to constitutional history, which forms the canvas on which the legal picture is painted, and to Latin, mathematics, science and logic, which make for mental discipline. If such courses were advertised as advisable for law school, less time would be wasted in "social sciences", which lawyers meet all the rest of their lives in practice, and the student would have a firmer foundation on which to build. Furthermore, a system of admission based on legal aptitude tests as well as on college records might well be adopted. Thus the selection of better trained men could...
...just closed, Harlow feels, is the fact that Harvard has completely lost its reputation for being an easy mark, and also the fact that the team no longer tries only to hold down the opponents score, but is out very definitely to win every game. That was the tremendous mental hazard that Harlow had to overcome...
...egoist like his fellow reporter-biographers, Mr. Miller likes to go on solitary two-day hikes "as a useful mental astringent," still has to give himself a fight-talk to ward off journalistic stage fright before interviewing famed figures. Less blatant in his self-revelations than Negley Farson, he shows less literary skill than Walter Duranty, less philosophical originality than Vincent Sheean. He gropes for "some system ... of bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized...
...What the mental processes were which produced this regulation are difficult to determine. The "scandals" of last year were the outcome of large parties, not small gatherings. Further, the "two women" aspect of the rule casts a shadow over the reputation of the unchaperoned lady in a manner decidedly reminiscent of a spirit which was supposed to disappear with the turn of the century. Next, perhaps, the College will show marked approval of ladies who discreetly veil their faces and wear low-heeled shoes...