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Word: mentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental struggle that went on within the independent Chapayev before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...attempt to turn the student's acquired learning and mental aptitude into more constructive channels in the object of the Foundation's work here through the office of Dean Chase of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Are Subjected To Aptitude Tests Before Specializing | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...ahoy! Another smaller island slips over the horizon--a different island, built of smaller reddish stones, with a sign which labels it Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest on top, and it, too, is yet unfinished by man's hand in the interior. Vag makes a mental note that it will make a fine camping ground for a winter afternoon and marks it on his chart. Then, night having fallen, and the navigation hazards consequently having increased, he sets the homeward course to his own private penthouse island, reckoned directly due south from the old Harvard Hall buoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...There is no evidence that a couple's income, religious training or differences in age or education affects its marital happiness. Contrary to the findings of other experts, early marriage, brief acquaintance before marriage, petting in adolescence, inadequate sex instruction, have little effect on marital happiness. But relative mental ability counts: a bright husband is likely to be unhappy with a stupid wife; a wife is happy if her husband is superior, unhappy if he is inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marriage & Happiness | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

This statement from the Eli Sophomore, made in Commons after dinner recently, provoked several friends to make good his boast. Sergeant Frank M. Newman's best device was a heavy brown belt with handcuffs attached. He strapped Radner in the belt, one used for violent mental cases, and bound his hands in the steel bracelets. The doubting Elis were satisfied that he was securely fastened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HOUDINI RAFFLES NEW HAVEN POLICE BY ESCAPING | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

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