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...card-guessing experiments which he claims prove Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), a Rhine-ism for telepathy and clairvoyance. Last week, Dr. Kennedy reported an ingenious series of counter-experiments which many of Rhine's many critics will regard as the final nail in ESP's coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unconscious Whispering | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feeler | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Harold T. Smith, Jr. -- Miss Dorothy Coffin, Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Girls Coming to '41 Jubilee Tonight | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

Panama Pacific's coffin had three big nails in it: Last June, after Congress withdrew all ocean mail subsidies, empowering the Maritime Commission to make a new deal, Panama Pacific lost its annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Panama Pacific Out | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Coffin: freshmen 89%, seniors 96%, faculty 90%, men 89%, women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taboo Words | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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