Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To prove the powerful effect of motivation, he cited an experiment in which people, labeled "sheep," who believed strongly in the possibility of ESP consistently scored better than the laws of chance would allow.
The College yesterday gave Adams House permission to install an electric washing machine in the basement, but added that no other House could have one until Adams tries the experiment for a year.
From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who...
...Medicine had been arrested for cruelty to animals, he decided that Hearst's campaign was "no longer just a nuisance. It was a real problem to medical research." Wrote Deutsch: "The medical scientists prefer to experiment on animals . . . The anti-vivisectionists apparently prefer human babies to dogs as experimental objects." In California, Dr. Prinzmetal continued his animal experiments, and his visits to anti-vivisection's high priest...
Last week, the first big U.S. experiment with the process got under way at the Alabama Power Co.'s Gorgas mine, 55 miles northwest of Birmingham. (A small-scale test at the same site two years ago gave promising but inconclusive results.) A thermite bomb was exploded 160 ft...