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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, correlation of the information gathered by the physician with that of the psychiatrist shows that there is a relationship between some minor physical defects such as poor teeth, frequent headaches, flat feet and certain less desirable personality traits. Seventy per cent of 56 students tagged by the psychiatrists were labeled the same way by the physician, who based his opinion only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder...
...that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but is a folk improvement on it dating from about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities...
Latest victim of the war are the music stores, for on April 22 the government froze 70 per cent of the shellae vital to the production of phonograph records. Now record producers insist that dealers turn in one used record for every three new ones they obtain, and music stores feel that soon they will have to ask customers to bring in old recordings in exchange for new purchases. Radio manufacture also was stopped in April, but the most acute shortage in this connection is of skilled repairmen, many of whom have joined the Army Signal Corps...
...fifth position with 66. English was shoved back by the phenomenal rise of Biochemical Sciences from 48 to 84 for third place. Chemistry, with a steady increase, brought its number up to 71 for fourth place. On the heels of English was Physics, showing almost a 300 per cent rise from...
...line with a policy of economy, due to the fact that this year's Smoker budget is 50 per cent less than that of last year, the affair will be held in the Union, which is less expensive than previously used Sanders Theatre. The show will begin at 8:30 o'clock, and will continue indefinitely...