Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly relieved, he will always carry some slight defect and his chances of success in life can be greatly helped by proper psychological preparation...
...Lord Marley. "Bennett's inability to make further concessions plus his obvious need to advocate some bold policy for election, makes him turn to some idea better called 'state Capitalism' than Fascism," cried Marley. "This way out came natural to a man of Bennett's mental equipment, which, though clever, completely refuses to face the real cause of the crisis and the real way out. Bennett and the forces he represents are obviously making Capitalism's last stand...
...meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
...from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today he is a chubby, serious lad with a mental age of 16, a conversational level above that of the ordinary adult. Only normal in his physical development, he suffers from a desire to revise the rules of every game he plays, sometimes bursts out crying if he loses. He likes best to perform feats of daring. Pet dislikes...
...students, a young man with no pretensions to special psychic equipment. Strengthened was Dr. Rhine's conviction that sight without seeing is a natural and commonplace faculty, exercised by "the reception of an unknown form of energy in an unknown manner" but nevertheless "an integral part of mental life" and entirely within the orderly processes of Nature...