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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Battle on Rhine | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...soon will have buildings of its own, is a group of distinguished scholars who are subsidized so that they may pursue their own researches without the distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed by Dr. Abraham Flexner, the Institute was started in 1933 with a $5,000,000 endowment from Louis Bamberger, retired Newark department store tycoon, and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Selective voluntary sterilization was recommended last night by Dr. Abraham Myerson, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, at a Eugenics symposium in the New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sterilization Recommended By Dr. Myerson in Lecture | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

Into the offices of Maryland's State Unemployment Service in Baltimore walked Nettie Mudd Monroe, widowed daughter of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the mild country doctor who set the leg of Assassin John Wilkes Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have participated in the World War if it had been fully armed, Franklin Roosevelt wearily replied that it was a bit like saying: If Abraham Lincoln were alive and on the Bituminous Coal Commission, what would he have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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