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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another client, a Radcliffe student of dubious mental powers, entered complaint against several national magazines for using her picture on their covers without her permission. As evidence, the near-sighted girl displayed photographs of Lana Turner and Jean Tierney in poses of semi nudity. The law students were hard pressed for authoritative legal precedence in the case, but again succeeded in satisfying the plaintive without resorting to court procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Honor Students Provide Legal Aid, Gratis | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Like Richard Hughes's famed A High Wind in Jamaica, Miss Barker's Innocents takes the mental world of children with unsentimental seriousness. Storyteller Barker works surely from within the child's range of comprehension, accurately describes the forging of a child's protective armor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Innocence & Experience | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Tuberculosis, mental disorders, and venereal disease now have a greater effect on the health of the nation than any other diseases, Major General Paul R. Hawley, medical director of the Veterans Administration, told the Health Forum of the Harvard School of Public Health Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TB, VD Threaten Health of Nation | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Calling mental disease "the leading single cause of hospital bed occupancy," Hawley praised the role of mental hygiene clinics, which make treatments available to veterans with mental disorders not requiring hospitalization. He cited syphilis as the chief venereal offender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TB, VD Threaten Health of Nation | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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