Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used...
Sensory emotion occurs when a child gets angry at a chair against which he has bumped his knee. The sense impressions reach the hypothalamus, where they become an emotional process. It emerges from the hypothalamus through the mamillary body and passes to the cortex by way of the gyrus cinguli...
...human brain the cerebral cortex, whose outer layers are visible in pickled specimens as the familiar wrinkled folds which look like sweetbreads, is the seat of reason and intellection. It is also the seat of emotional consciousness. But consciousness is not a process; it is an end-product. The mechanisms which produce emotional consciousness appear to be situated in the diencephalon, a central cluster of organs which is enfolded by the cerebral hemispheres...
...sits down and gets angry by thinking about wrongs done to him by an enemy. In psychic emotion, therefore, the emotional impulse is initiated within the brain-that is, by the cerebral cortex. The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process. This passes through the mamillary body, thence to the gyrus cinguli and so back to the cortex where the emotional experience is felt...
Conclusion: "Is emotion a magic product, or is it a physiologic process which depends on an anatomic mechanism? . . . The evidence presented is ... suggestive of such a mechanism as a unit within the larger architectural mosaic of the brain...