Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor the abolition of the elementary language requirement?" to the general principle involved in "For each of the elementary courses you have taken to satisfy the language requirements, explain what value or interest it has for you other than as a means of meeting the requirement, i.e. cultural value, mental training...
...Peoria, Ill., Ernest T. Faulkner sued the man his automobile had run over, for damages for mental shock and nervous disorders...
...painted the "Blue Boy," perhaps his best-known work. Blake, of course, is the ideal artistic anarchist, "an almost perfect example of the visionary," and Fry does not warm up to him, for "he was the victim, but a very happy victim, of a well-recognized form of mental discase...
...angina pectoris, in electric shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott are doting friends. She remains abstract in any crowd, never gives the appearance of listening. When Corinne Roosevelt Robinson tried to tell her once that her brother liked her book, Mother, Mrs. Norris vaguely got him confused with a doctor in Buffalo, made a mental note that it was probably the obstetrical parts of her story that appealed to her medical admirer. Later she was told that Mrs. Robinson's brother was President Theodore Roosevelt...