Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. psychologist the letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
Like seven other State winners in landowner and tenant classes, he had already received a check for $100 and a pedigreed Jersey bull calf. The sweepstakes prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...
...Ickes, a onetime Bull Mooser, was to have run, of course, as a New Deal Democrat. His back-out left the field to Mayor Edward J. Kelly and ambitious State's Attorney Tom Courtney. Mayor Kelly visited Washington to see what his chances were for Jim Farley's support...
...Brother Rat" and "Ferdinand the Bull" are currently fighting for honors at the University, with "Torchy Gets Her Man" a poor third. For those who have not seen "Brother Rat" on the stage, the screen version is top notch entertainment; for those who have, the movie is merely amusing. The lines are good, the plot, based on the complexities of life at the Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades...
...Ferdinand the Bull" the Disney touch is added to a book that is already a classic, and the result is no better but just as good. In the third movie "Torchy" is a woman detective...