Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flow of blood in the coronary arteries that serve the heart itself, stimulate the thinking areas of the brain, constrict the blood vessels. In a recent paper abstracted last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Robert Louis Levy of Columbia University declared that in certain high-strung individuals under mental or emotional stress, coffee may cause heart pains...
...unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks...
Professor Lashley will discuss the various mental functions which have seats in distinct portions of the brain. Dinner will be at 6:15 o'clock and the lecture at 7:20 o'clock...
...never have free time; I only see People when I haven't," began Edwin G. Bering, head of the Department of Psychology, as he launched into a discussion of the new mental telepathy experiments now being conducted at Duke and Harvard Universities...
Though Froud believed sex was the root of all mental disturbances, the Hygiene Department "considers most problems of sex to be an outgrowth of more extensive psychological disorders." Decidedly, Harvard sex cuts little...