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...drum up sales, Cravens sent 20 RFC salesmen out on the road and negotiated with investment banking houses to underwrite the sale of $65 million worth of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bonds. Cravens also hoped to get banks to form a national syndicate to take over most of the 4,327 business loans of less than $200,000, which would take too long to sell...
...formerly a two-monthly dwelling, in 1929. Its first symptoms of psychology appeared a few years later; many walls were wired for sound and a portable table lamp equipped with a microphone filled in the gaps. All microphones fed into a huge recording machine in the basement, while a drum on the library wall conceals a separate sound system. The "bamboo room," now used for seminars, was then an observation chamber for Cambridge children at play. Behind a one way mirror, a psychologist could record his impressions of them...
Sprinkle Wrinkle. General Electric Co. brought out a clothes dryer that also sprinkles dry clothes in preparation for ironing. The sprinkling unit is a metal cylinder which squirts water while the clothes are being tumbled in the drum. Price...
Feeling of a Conqueror. Looking into Freud's childhood is like looking at psychoanalysis studying its reflection in a mirror. All the principal Freudian units are, quite "unconsciously," making their first grand march through the streets of Wonderland-with lusty Private Libido (infantile sexuality) beating his big drum, and General Repression sternly rebuking Major Oedipus (for jealousy of father coupled with excessive love of mother). And yet an air of medieval superstition mingles with this up-to-date atmosphere. Sigmund was "born in a caul," i.e., with part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman...
...points drop through the list of possible positions until such activities as drum major, "letter men of undefeated varsity teams," and "any class officer" receive two points...