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Word: beasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human mind into its primary functions. He started with a tentative list of about half-a-dozen theoretical functions, created a set of 56 tests to probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mind Cracked | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...steal the show this year, it is a good show Gargantua has stolen. Brilliant with new costumes, electric with man-&-beast action on its three rings and two stages, the 1938 circus has, besides a full deck of routine, such new acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Detroit's Rats | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...last week, dapper, 40-year-old Poet Joseph Auslander, recently appointed to the "chair of poetry" of the Congressional Library, proposed as his first official act the building of "a singing tower," meaning a place where poets' work would be safe against "the horrors of the hour, Beast passion and the lust for power." At the end of a three-verse appeal which began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singing Fortress | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM TROUBLES | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

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