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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the British transatlantic plane Mercury [TIME, Aug. 8], is '"piggy-back," or "pic-a-back," or "pickaback" correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Kennedy had an idea that "unconscious whispering" might help explain the high percentage of correct guesses recorded by Rhine. A person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose...

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

Reader Keve's memory is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...nation. Although some publicists claim that the Security Program has cared for 22,000 out of 88,000 Mormons in distress, most investigators have concluded that the church has as yet no reliable figures. Significantly, nonpartisan Mormons have for the church's own good lately attempted to correct widespread misunderstandings of the Security Program. Said a paragraph buried in the church's last annual report: "The church has not yet made any effort, or pretended to make any effort, to take its members from governmental work projects; it has merely urged those on such projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tithes and Security | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...fairness to Dr. Hutchins, we wish to correct the impression in your recent article regarding the enrollment of his daughter, Frances, in Jokake School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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