Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is a very refreshing discussion of the beginnings of our Constitution. It is splendid mental stimulation. Besides, if we weren't doing this we might be doing something a damned sight worse...
Some hospitals, notably State insane asylums, are overcrowded. Of 228 mental hospitals that replied to the committee's inquiry 135 reported excess of patients over normal capacity. In 74 the crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build...
During the wintry years of its northern Depression, Canada's financial centre of gravity shifted westward from the first city of the Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount...
Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...
Sued for Divorce. Hiram Bingham, 62, onetime (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, mother of his seven sons; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty, his "cold indifference" and "attitude of superiority...