Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing topsy-turvy on one's head for 20 minutes "clarifies the mind, cures dyspepsia and constipation." Standing similarly on the shoulders "has a beneficial effect on weak sex glands...
Kimiko (Photographic Chemical Laboratories) is the first Japanese talking picture to be exhibited in the U. S. Shown last week at Manhattan's Filmarte Theatre, which specializes in importations, its net effect was to bore ordinary cinemaddicts, please amateurs of the curious and reassure Hollywood producers that Japan's prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha...
...asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock in Hearst Publications. Thus, in effect, the subsidiary lent the parent company the money with which the parent company bought the subsidiary's stock. Hearst Publications lists its goodwill (circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.) at $38,000,000, some $30,000,000 of which represents write-ups. Out of Hearst Publications...
...metal atoms are jostled around by stirring the water, they will soon strike the underside of the film, adhere to it. The film is skimmed from the water, allowed to contract. If it contains no metal, when viewed by polarized light it will give a double refraction effect in handsome colors. But if there were only two parts of aluminum, for example, in a billion parts of the water, the refraction effect will not show...
...Rhine evidence for extrasensory perception was greeted with widespread skepticism and objections in academic psychological circles. One effect, however, was to start experimenters elsewhere to work trying to duplicate or disprove the Rhine results. It was to accommodate reports of this growing body of research that the Journal of Parapsychology was set on foot...