Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, ninth in a current series, netted close to $50,000 more than the best previous attempt and gathered funds from 45 per cent of the alumni. Non-alumni contributions amounted to nearly $60,000 and raised the average gift in the campaign from...
Williams' coach, Clarence Chafee, usually a close-mouthed sort, allowed earlier this fall that his squad was "one of the best in years." This can only mean that the Ephs are loaded. Their halfback line, led by Ben Field and Jim Fox, returns intact from last season, and all the Ephmen are big, rough operatives who play a hard-running, straight-ahead type of game...
...Communist organizers also did their best to seal off potentially receptive satellite groups by housing them all over Vienna. The Hungarians, for example, were isolated on barges in the Danube, and Festival guards checked all boarders. For these groups of delegates the Communists had a grab-bag of attractions...
...even when the seminar argumentation was not totally censored, the Communists did no better. It was in this area, and in the opportunity for personal contact, that the Americans working within the Festival achieved their best effects...
Hypnosis is perhaps best understood as an "interpersonal relationship" between the hypnotist and the subject. In everyday life, most individuals have experiences of a trance-like nature. Such experiences as falling asleep in a lecture, getting totally absorbed in a book, or sleep-walking occur quite frequently. In hypnosis "the individual gets permission to function at this level," and he is more able to tolerate logical inconsistencies than he would be in the waking state...