Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain acquires its final pattern and shape, although only about four-fifths adult size, between the fourth and sixth years. "In other words, we send our children to school when all their mental faculties are potentially present, awaiting education to transform them into abilities...
...uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding the League of Nations does him less credit than the remainder of his opinions...
...years students at the University of Pennsylvania have heard of the African sextuplets when Dr. Schumann lectured on multiple pregnancies (TIME, March 4). Hence one can easily imagine their surprise on finding the story on the front pages of their morning papers. However their mental state was probably much more settled than Dr. Schumann's for he returned from his Southern trip weary' and worn, complaining to his class about pestering reporters and the fact that he had even been offered $100,000 to display the sextuplets at a nearby shore resort during the next summer season...
Like many another Southerner [the undersigned] cannot overlook TIME'S studied efforts to place the Negro on the same mental and social plane with the white, nor TIME'S never-passed-up policy of printing Negro pictures and praising Negro effort to the skies. CHAS. A. GUY Editor and Publisher Lubbock Morning Avalanche Lubbock Evening Journal Lubbock...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...