Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles a day all last week. The crew is now easing up on the distance, Bolles' theory being not to drive a crew through increasingly difficult workouts which might leave it stale on race day, but to bring it along so that it is at a mental and physical peak just for the hour of the long pull...
Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School warned seniors and candidates for advanced degrees that "making your mental peace with the kind of world in which you are now going is a necessity," at Annex Baccalaureate services Sunday in Harvard Memorial Church...
...college is such an experience," he continued. "Leaving college and going on to graduate study or out into the world is another. Getting married . . . the loss of a job . . . the death of someone near to us . . . They are the times for which we are unprepared," when we loss our mental peace and "make a mess of our lives...
Concealed in that intention, of course, is an insult of the grossest nature; for the assumption behind these attacks is that American students are incapable of judging idea for themselves, that they are, in fact, quite willing to submit to mental strait-jackets...
...censors sat through five showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...