Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career, Speaker Rainey said, "There is always value in majoring in history, but never in government. From a study of history and of present developments, the student should formulate his own ideas of the proper conduct of a government. In the study of history, there is cultural training and mental discipline, enabling the student to look forward to problems of the future...
...classical course," he said. "If possible, take six or seven years of Latin and five or six years of Greek. Study all the mathematics that you can. Few young men will agree that a cultural knowledge of the classics is important, but such training is invaluable in giving mental discipline. A young man should develop so that he can think along the proper lines...
Most persons who have gone through this experience suffer the rest of their lives from anemia and general weakness; even mental weaknesses have been reported, I have since learned. The Methylene Blue restores the red corpuscles which the poison breaks down, but knowledge of this would not have been available to me had not TIME made the announcement. Neither of us have any after-effects from our experience. The physician. Dr. G. Ralph Maxwell, should also be commended for keeping himself abreast of the times in this manner...
...last week fiery Mayor-elect Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia announced the new face-fronts for his New Deal. They were young faces, very earnest, very mental...
...Johnny has been to make him bold, self-confident and cocky, while Jimmy is a charming roly-poly who gets what he wants by crying or smiling. These contrary attitudes in the twins pose the question "whether or not, by intensive training during infancy, you can raise the mental level of a given individual." Explained Dr. McGraw: "You can get a definite change in attitude toward achievement, even during the early months of infancy, and attitude is one of the most important factors governing achievement of performance. . . . Presumably attitude plays an equally important role in the way adults face...