Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Duke University presses last week appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal of Parapsychology, first publication in this field ever sponsored by a reputable university. Well-printed, with a plain, pleasing cover in blue on rag paper, the journal will appear quarterly. Annual subscription: $3. Editors are Dr. Rhine and famed, contentious old Psychologist William McDougall, who raised the eyebrows of orthodox science by dabbling in parapsychology even before the Rhine experiments at Duke got under...
...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
...front cover) In 1886, famed "Cap" Anson created a furor by taking his Chicago baseball team (including Evangelist Billy Sunday) to Hot Springs, Ark. to get ready for the opening of the season. Since then, spring training has been a baseball institution. Main purpose of spring training is not to recondition baseballers but to recondition baseball addicts, by reminding them that a new season is about to start, reviving their interest in the game. By last week, baseball addicts had had six weeks of training-camp news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston...
...announced he wanted to be a delegate to the national convention. Hetty Green had told him to get some publicity. The convention told him nothin' stirrin' . . . but the people of the town put on the pressure. ... I told Colonel Green it would 'take 75' to cover expenses for the delegate he replaced. He handed me a check for $7,500. I had to explain I only needed...
Prizes will be awarded on the basis of yearly examinations for students and the general public, and will be known as the William H. Bliss Awards in American History. Mrs. Charles Warren, of Washington, D. C., has established a fund in memory of her father which will cover all expenses of the plan for five years...