Word: clairvoyante
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Died. Maclay Hoyne, 66, onetime State's Attorney for Cook County, Ill., feared prosecutor of Chicago's corrupt politicians, labor leaders, policemen, arsonists, wiretappers, clairvoyant racketeers (5,000 convictions in eight years); of uremic poisoning; in Chicago.
This contagious dogma was uncorked 70 years ago by an unlettered New England clockmaker, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me. He had discovered that he could mesmerize people, and in collaboration with a clairvoyant youth named Lucius Burkmar he cured all manner of ills. To him in 1862 went a...
A great many-about one quarter-of the young hopefuls who go to college flunk out hopelessly. That is one reason why educators would like to be clairvoyant. Last week two experts in the Federal Office of Education turned out an elaborate statistical system* for predicting whether a student will...
Dr. Joseph Albert Greenwood, a boyish, piano-playing Duke mathematician, some time ago undertook to rebut this suggestion, by testing the operation of pure chance on no less than 500.000 cards. Last week he announced that he had obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was...
In Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the...