Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomtoms, Author Oliver has had literary success before now. His novel Fear, published two years ago. also by Macmillan's Religious Book Department, has achieved eleven printings. Victim and Victor has had one large printing since December. Both are on the same general theme: the healing power, spiritual, mental, physical, that may lie in the co-operative work of an understanding physician and an intelligent minister. The hero of Victim and Victor is a priest unfrocked for drunkenness. Author Oliver, a Doctor, was an unfrocked minister from 1923 to 1927, is now practising psychiatry and criminology in Baltimore...
...addressed to New York's Governor Roosevelt, a confession that he (Callegy) had made and sent it himself. Reason: his $1,600-per-year postal job was monotonous, not lucrative. He thought if he did something "heroic" he would be promoted. Would-be-hero Callegy was hospitalized for mental observation...
Finality is not claimed for the above list. Very possibly other equally important defects have been overlooked. But it is confidently believed that those law school men whose mental efforts are not quickened altogether by the voice of authority will recognize the justice of those here set down...
...casebook instruction it is possible to formulate very specific adverse criticisms: 1. that the material is placed before the student in a form at once fragmentary and incoherent. 2. that the books are necessarily choked with irrelevant matter which overwhelms the learner and, so far from stimulating his mental processes, deadens them. 3. that the knowledge imparted is often startling in its superficiality and precarious by reason of its want of foundation...
...were particularly well represented. Great are utilities and large their earnings, but for some reason the report of (say) Public Service Corp. of New Jersey does not excite as much popular interest as the report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only a picture of vague turbines and shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps...