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...Joseph Albert Greenwood, a boyish, piano-playing Duke mathematician, some time ago undertook to rebut this suggestion, by testing the operation of pure chance on no less than 500.000 cards. Last week he announced that he had obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was below but closely approximate to the expected five hits per 25, Dr. Greenwood felt he had proved Dr. Rhine's point-that telepathic and clairvoyant humans can make much better scores than are obtainable by random card-matching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indefatigable Cardplayer | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Clulow Jr., of Tulsa, Okla., a candidate for LL.B. this June at George Washington University; Donald W. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., LL.B. Harvard '37, a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Orlando J. Bowman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, LL.B. University of Utah '34; Howard L. Burns, of Greenwood, S. C., A.B. University of South Carolina '36, a candidate for LL.B. University of South Carolina this June; and Claude T. Coffman, of Merigold, Miss., a candidate for LL.B. University of Missisippi this June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22 LAW SCHOOL AWARDS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

...Liberty in Europe is being murdered, and the Prime Minister is the undertaker -waiting to bury the corpse!" cried Orator Arthur Greenwood, presenting Labor's motion. "Mussolini has been tricked over Austria, yet in Mussolini's hour of weakness the British Government has gone to his rescue! . . . The British Government is permitting the Spanish Loyalists to be butchered to make a Roman holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Five Shillings | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Sales. Second ambiguity in the lists is that they give no figures on sales. When The Citadel was a leading seller in the small, busy Matthews Book Store in Omaha, Neb. and in the medium-sized, modern Greenwood Book Shop in the Delaware Trust Bldg. in the heart of Wilmington, it was not doing so well at Kroch's in Chicago, one of the six biggest bookstores in the U. S., which sells ten times more books each year than do the other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Outside organizations taking part in the Carnival are the Olneyville Boys' Club and Auxiliary, the Boston Boys' Club, the Roxbury Boys' Club, the Worcester Women's Swimming Association, the Somerville Y Aquatic Club, the Posse School A.A.U. team, the Whitin Community Association, the Greenwood Memorial Club, and the Brookline Women's Swimming Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall-Hutter Battle in 150-Yd. Race Will Climax Water Carnival Tomorrow | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

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