Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TV's relaxed and relaxing Dave Garroway this week passed his 2,500th hour on the air, topping the endurance record of even durable Howdy Doody (2,080 hours). In the years of Garroway's climb, the medium which now carries his placating gestures into 1,800,000...
In the South African Medical Journal, German-born Physiologist R. H. Goetz reports how he solved a part of this problem. He did it one of the hard ways. When he was in Cambridge, England, in 1949, he suggested to Professor de Burgh Daly that they experiment with live giraffes...
Just One Experiment. He disputes methods used to arrive at psi findings, suggests that all the tests could be frauds, possibly worked by "arguing that much good to humanity could result from a small deception designed to strengthen religious belief." If the findings of experimenters like Rhine and Soal are valid, says Price, they are "of enormous importance . . ." "As scientists." he asks, "what sort of evidence for ESP should we demand?" His answer: "Just one experiment that does not have to be accepted simply on a basis of faith in human honesty." His recommendation: apply Hume's precept with...
The boys were part of a radical Christian experiment: the East Harlem Protestant Parish. With 21 other students (twelve boys, nine girls) from Colby, Swarthmore, Colgate, Union Theological Seminary and other Eastern and Midwestern colleges, they had forsaken beach or mountains to spend their summer vacations in one of the...
One day in 1862, Congressman Justin James Morrill of Vermont rose in the House of Representatives to propose a bill that was destined to add a whole new dimension to U.S. education. The Gover ment, said he, should grant to each state enough land to start at least one college...