Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompanied by slides of animals and natives, and can be shortened if desired. The programs, however, are not entirely confined to orations: one man is equipped to show "two scowling puppets of large size who battle three rounds to a knockout." Another is able to demonstrate simple experiments in mental telepathy and mind reading, which are particularly interesting to children. The Bureau, in short, can fill any, or almost any, need...
Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers...
...caused the death of seven lives by placing a bomb in an airliner in October will openly confess, he will save himself years of mental torture and free his conscience. A Victim...
...arts where Latin is of no immediate advantage. But there are many departments, such as English and the Romance Languages, in which its importance cannot be ignored, and surely it is a handicap in none of them. More significant, however, is the value of Latin as a means to mental training in the secondary schools. No readier index exists to the quality of a secondary school preparing for a liberal arts college than the excellence of its instruction in Latin and Greek. To preserve uniformity in the admission to A.B. candidacy, the Latin reading requirement should be retained...
...cattle dealers and pimps"; fourth, that all traces of the doctrine of humility should be deleted from the New Testament. This program as it was bellowed to the enthusiastic audience was adopted almost unanimously by the delegates convened, and will undoubtedly be echoed throughout Germany. What lies behind this mental revolt...