Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former Budge Commissioner for Massachusetts, Greenough has also been in charge of business affairs for the state's mental hospitals...
...most damaging effect of age on a pilot is trouble with his eyes. Only rarely is hearing poor enough to be dangerous. Mental ability in older pilots is nothing to worry about, said McFarland, who is 47: "The extent of the decline in such functions as ability to learn, memory, reasoning and judgment is much less than generally believed." As long as the pilot had a good brain to start with, and his interest in his job continues, no "significant adverse trends in mental performance" should be expected up to 55 or 60. As a "morale builder" for older fliers...
...laboratory of Barnwood House Mental Hospital, on the outskirts of Gloucester, England, is a modest black contraption that looks like four storage batteries set in a square. Its only visible moving parts are four small magnets, one swinging like a compass needle over each box. Psychiatrist William Ross Ashby, who built the machine, thinks that it is the closest thing to a synthetic human brain so far designed...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland as a schizophrenic, in a movingly realistic story about mental illness and mental institutions (TIME...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland, as a schizophrenic, in a realistic story about mental illness (TIME...