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Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rohrschach started something when he began making blot-pictures, by folding a piece of paper on a blob of ink. He showed the "pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...
Banjo Boy Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 27, your article "Heroes" [about the theory that Abraham Lincoln was John Calhoun's illegitimate son] is a blot on your journalistic record that will be and should be hard to overcome...
...schedule--Yale and Princeton. The rest of the lineup was as follows: Bates, Boston College (before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson...
...inconsidered and rash Act of the Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...
...that our great anti-Hitler front will rapidly gain strength, that there exists no force which could break this anti-Hitler front. A combination of states has at last been formed against Hitlerism which will find ways and means to erase from the face of the earth the Nazi blot on Europe and the threat it carries to all peoples who love their independence and freedom...