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...William and Mary chartered the institution, granting a fabulous cash endowment of well over $100,000, 20,000 acres of land, and an annual income that shot up like a pre-depression graph. This was garnered from an export duty of two cents on every pound of tobacco, another on all skins and pelts, an import tax on all liquors, and one-sixth of the fees of all public surveyors. Around 1750 this amounted to $15,000 annually, arousing the admiration and envy of William and Mary's poor, struggling contemporaries in the other colonies...
...detector's graph showed, at this point, marked disturbance of breathing, pulse, blood pressure-presumptive evidence of a lie. Yet the lad was telling the truth. Patient questioning brought out that he had indeed not stolen a car, but that mention of "stealing" and "car" reminded him of the time when he had put only four gallons of fuel in the family automobile's tank, although his father had given him money for five. Hence his reaction...
This incident was related last week at the American Psychological Association convention (see above) by Verne W. Lyon of Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research, who believed that "emotion detector" would be a better name than "lie detector."* Fluctuations on the graph might reveal "painful complexes" instead of falsehood...
...graph or chart better reflects the success of the farm year than the receipts and attendance figures at State Fairs. What with government bounties and higher agricultural prices, last year was a whopper, best since Depression. Attendance records were well over the 1931-33 figure and, more significantly, carnival show operators reported business increases ranging from 12% at the Illinois Fair to 75% at the Colorado Fair...
...Board in the summer and early fall of 1929 and its relation to the stock-market crash still rages. Thus news that the Bank of France has raised its rate of interest from 2 1-2 to 4 per cent, while apparently merely one more fact for statisticians and graph-makers, may conceivably have drastic repercussions...