Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After more than two years of earnest fact-finding and many months of laborious lawmaking, the British Government last week breathed a sigh of accomplishment. They had just passed what they believed to be holeproof legislation to replace the punctured, lately-expired Cinematograph Films...
...gloomy university budgetmaker John Price Jones Corp., fund raisers, last week placed a surprising document. It was a study of gifts and bequests to a sample group of 49 U. S. universities, which in 17 years have received all told $770,913,560. The surprise lay in the fact that these universities as a group had received almost as much from philanthropists after Depression as before it. Their receipts each year from 1920 to 1929 averaged $45,573,000, each year since...
...statistical methods, they would probably find that-as a group compared with other scientists-they were cheerful, convivial, well-dressed, well-mannered, interested in one another, argumentative, mildly frustrated. Psychology is a science notably torn by internal dissension, a state of affairs which is only partly due to the fact that it harbors a relatively large number of women. It is the human mind in the act of investigating itself-a tricky business, to which the rigorous methods of other sciences are frequently not applicable. It draws generalizations from large numbers of individuals, and so the problem of statistical evaluation...
Next day Dr. Steuart Henderson Britt of George Washington University in another address said, that while he was willing to leave the mathematics of ESP to the mathematicians, he was not willing to overlook the fact that Rhine had not published all his scores, or the possibility that some of his subjects had juggled the results to please their mentor. He asserted that ESP cards are so heavily printed that the designs can be told either by sight or by touch from the back, proved this point when he correctly read 24 out of 25 ESP cards whose faces...
...City and St. Louis counterbalanced country buying. In Texas and lower Arizona and New Mexico, the stability provided by bumper 9? cotton crops is notably enhanced by the oil business, about the only U. S. industry still going at close to full blast (because of war demand and the fact that people have yet to stop driving their cars). In that region trade in January was off a mere .1%. Last week salesmen were calling Dun & Bradstreet to report: "In Texas they don't know a depression exists...