Word: intellection
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Seeking Divorce. Ina Claire, 38, cinema and stage actress (The Royal Family of Broadway, Rebound); from Cinemactor John Gilbert, 33. Charge: mental cruelty. One of his alleged cruelties: calling her "a woman of too much intellect...
...Vagabond has never followed after the things of the body. He has confined himself chiefly to the less corporeal activities of the mind and intellect. Of late days, however, what with the warm weather and the fag end of the year, he has found the intellect altogether wanting. He decided that it was high time he learned something about the physical set up of mankind...
...more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which may be as valuable as purely mental growth, but it is the best way to produce that rara avis, a really strong intellect, ready to "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
...weakness of intellect, birdie " I cried...
President Butler also quoted himself as saying, in the same setting twenty-four years ago, that a democracy must provide itself with a foil of its own--an effective aristocracy of intellect and service. California, with its State university (enjoying also large private endowments), its Stanford University and its institutions of superb technical and scientific equipment, is best served and is best able to serve the nation by maintaining these at topmost intellectual efficiency rather than by dissipating its funds in evoking sham universities out of junior colleges. California cannot hold her place in the educational van if she ceases...