Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tests-for aptitude in the arts and sciences, for handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result of his G supply plus his special talent for poker. This becomes a simple equation...
...food, from the whims of the specialists in education, nutrition, morals, sociology, etc., from all progress inspired, not by the needs of the public, but by the greed or the illusions of their inventors. An institution of this sort would acquire enough knowledge to prevent the organic and mental deterioration of civilized nations. Its members should be given a position as highly considered, as free from political intrigues and from cheap publicity, as that of the justices of the Supreme Court. Their importance would, in truth, be much greater than that of the jurists who watch over the Constitution...
...have led him across the path of philosophers, artists, poets, and scientists. And also of geniuses, heroes, and saints. At the same time, he has studied the hidden mechanisms which, in the depth of the tissues and in the immensity of the brain, are the substratum of organic and mental phenomena...
...physical proportions and heredities. After polite Dr. Campbell sat down last week, Chief Arthur Giitt of the German Public Health Department bluntly told the Congress: "Our penal code will shortly make compulsory a health examination for all marrying persons. The purpose of this is first to dissuade bodily or mental inferiors from marrying and especially from procreation. Second, to prevent marriages between hereditarily tainted persons, the same as a marriage between an Aryan and a non-Aryan. Third, to influence the choice of life partners from a health as well as a racial viewpoint...
...Adolf Hitler last week took time off from such joys as listening to the village accordionist (see cut) to commute a death sentence for the first time since he became Realmleader. With German judges now officially expected to cut their decisions in psychic accord with Herr Hitler's mental patterns (see above), interest had been keen as to what he would do in the case of one Wilhelm Keim, a youth sentenced to have his head chopped off for murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible...