Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon both yesterday's group and newcomers will be given physical exams. Practice is scheduled for 3 o'clock...
...With only the loosest connections with Oxford University, the Oxford Group is by no means to be with the Oxford Movement, a Church of England revival of a century...
Curious about the mental effects of short-wave radiation, Dr. Hughbert Clayton Hamilton of Philadelphia's Temple University tried heating rats. Last week he described his experiment to the American Psychological Association meeting at Columbus, Ohio. He divided the rats into two groups of 21 each, sent each group through a U-shaped maze once a day for 100 days. Every animal in the first group was subjected to short-wave radiation for two minutes, before each of the first 45 trials. Then temperatures were raised from 99.5 to 103 or 104.5° F. No radiation was given this...
...Hamilton could offer no explanation for the increased intelligence and lost tails of the irradiated group other than the fact that radiation stimulates circulation of the blood, sends more fresh blood through the brain and body. Whether increased intelligence might be obtained in humans he did not dare conjecture. Only mental result of artificial fever noticed so far is that the patient's outstanding personality characteristics are exaggerated after treatment...
...registration. Chief buyers are big insurance companies, which generally take an entire issue. This tends to give the insurance companies substantial say in the management of the issuer. Before Phillips Petroleum could market last week's issue, for instance, it had to get permission from a group of insurance firms to which it sold $23,000,000 in debentures in 1935 and 1937. To many a SEC official such circumstances have long spelled monopoly. Last week SEC began its long-expected investigation of monopoly in insurance companies by sending an exhaustive questionnaire to 406 of them. Chief...