Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John Broadus Watson, on a test which included the question: "Who is the leading authority in the modern school of psychology known as 'Behaviorism'?" Novelist Alice Duer Miller batted out the highest score, 97%. Professor George F. ("Than") Whicher of Amherst and Editor Holland Thompson of The Book of Knowledge tied for first place among the men, with 96%. But the editors dedicated their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them...
Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, waiters, tailors and candy-store clerks must beware their teeth. So said German scientist K. F. Hoffman last week. Indoor work tends to wear down bodily resistance. Poor ventilation helps teeth decay; dusts discolor teeth; sugar and flour ferment to form enamel-destroying acids...
Guzzling orange juice, milk and broth, munching chocolate, losing 17 pounds, Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland last week in 22 hours, 45 minutes. He had previously failed to finish in William Wrigley Jr.'s $25,000 nautical derby over the same course which 17-year-old George Young of Toronto completed in 15 hr. 44 min. (TIME...
...announced by the committee. The other patronesses include Mrs. W. B. Cannon, Mrs. D. K. David, Mrs. A. L. Endicott, Mrs. O. D. Kellogg, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. D. O. Swain, Mrs. J. S. P. Tatlock, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. E. C. Whiting and Mrs. B. F. Wright...
...Harvard men will line up with Captain R. P. Outerbridge '28 at number one, A. C. Lane '27 at number two, and J. F. Davidson '27 as number three man, while R. P. Outerbridge, J. F. Davidson and R. T. Lord '27 will wield the epees...