Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correctly he says that an education should sharpen the wits and discipline reasoning. Good intellectual habits are established by studying logic and mathematics, but the same mental exercises come from a workout with other and more valuable subjects. Chemistry and Physics train the mind exactly as do abstract problems, and they in themselves are useful to know. As Mr. Conant stated at the Tercentenary, colleges must find "the modern equivalent of the older educational disciplines...
Convinced that telegrams were adapt able to all social nuances, Mr. Willever first created special holly-leaved blanks for Christmas messages in 1914. He next observed that the mental strain involved in composing social telegrams plunged many a pencil-chewing patron into despondency. So Mr. Willever encouraged managers in branch offices to keep scrapbooks of sentiments they thought were neatly turned. From these collections Mr. Willever culled and issued in 1915 a grey booklet of "suggestions" for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Birthday, Wedding, Birth, Death, Congratulation messages...
...impossible to calculate that moral mischief . . . . that mental lying has produced in society. When * man has so far corrupted. . . . the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime...
...Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention at Baltimore last August, the Legionaries gave him an unmerciful beating. Since then peace-loving Woody Hockaday had been recuperating in a mental asylum...
Although Author Hurst does not make the point, readers may feel that Gregrannie must have exercised considerable mental agility merely to keep straight in her mind the large family in St. Luke's Place, Manhattan, over which she rules. It is a task likely to strain the patience of readers not half her years. For Gregrannie's daughter, Linda, has borne ten children at the beginning of Great Laughter, and these, with their wives and offspring, make up the cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers...