Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really amazing the way that psychology always comes through. We had known that it was a cure-all for mental disorders and that education had dipped into it a bit but now bicycling has stepped in and made...
President Ernest Martin Hopkins delivered the eulogy: "He had strength of character combined with a sweetness which made it persuasive. He had uncommon mental capacity, entirely devoid of intellectual arrogance. He had that charm of personality which attaches to one of independent judgment. He had that quality of soul which makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect...
From an unwilling soldier-hero Bardamu became a determined malingerer, then a semi-mental case. After the War he drifted into a nightmare job in a remote trading post in French Colonial Africa, then to the U. S., where he cadged awhile in Manhattan, worked in the Ford factory in Detroit, lived in uneasy clover as a harlot's fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell...
...requirements. The deadwood which is present in every field does not wreck concentration; it most certainly is capable of remedy. Both these problems need careful consideration, but as a broad conception, concentration in college is not only the natural development of a man's education but best sharpens his mental capabilities for the complicated demands of life today...
...criminal activities started some two weeks ago when the student's room was the objective of a fusillade of bullets which pierced three window panes, much to the mental and monetary discomfort of the occupant. The act was attributed to one of the numerous urchins living in the vicinity, and in the general scurry over divisionals was soon forgotten...