Word: intellection
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...amazed that there are 500 followers of "Silo Charlie" [TIME, Feb. 13] with sufficient intellect to read and understand TIME...
Arrival of this thinker pointed the fact that U. S. theological Modernists (counterparts of ideological Liberals) are at last awaking to the essential weakness of their position: they have based their theology on emotion rather than intellect, have sought truth with their nerves rather than with their minds...
...assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland's Mount Tabor Park, with one arm stretched toward the city centre...
...Thurstone's tests furnished scientific evidence that, while people who rank high in one mental ability are likely to score well in the others, frequently an individual may be strong in one faculty, weak in another. Thus people of superior intellect sometimes have poor memory. An individual may have a good memory for faces and a poor one for names, or vice versa. In the one case he ranks low in ability with words; in the other, he is deficient in visual imagery...
...close comparison between Granville Hicks and Al Capone. In so doing, he revealed clearly the attitude toward Communism of a group well represented throughout the country. To this group, the difference between a Red and a hardened criminal is negligible; all Communists are evil in intent, warped in intellect--shadowy monsters to be hated and feared. Such a deplorable recrudescence of superstition in our supposedly enlightened America is nursed by many things--home environment, the natural hostility of those in economic security toward any possible disruptive force--but primarily, as with every other superstition, this one is based on ignorance...