Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject was required at first to name the design on each card as it was removed, face down, from the pack. Later he was asked to name the order of the pack as it lay untouched on a table. In the tests for telepathy he was required to guess the card visualized in the mind of a telepathic agent. Since each guess represented a choice of one design among five, the average expectation under the laws of chance would be five hits in a run of 25 cards. At first Dr. Rhine's subjects were close to that average...
...What They Are Saying" is the Mirror's contest, copied by permission from London Tit-Bits. A set of four action photographs is printed every day for 28 days. Object: to guess which of 48 suggested "sayings" best fits each picture. All readers of this gumchewers' sheetlet who can decipher English are expected to get the first two weeks' examples perfectly. Hence, the tabulating company retained by the Mirror does not even examine the entries until the final, difficult ones have been received. Then the tabulators begin searching for highest scores among the last returns, which narrow...
...your issue of Nov. 12. under the heading "Dead Flower," you quote a remark of mine to the effect that TVA is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal-a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." I should guess that you have taken your quotation from the front cover of a widely circulated pamphlet by the National Coal Association and that both of you think, as you certainly suggest to your readers, that the "weeds" to which I referred were other provisions of the New Deal, in legislation and administration...
...three years ago it was the fashion to call Charles Dana Gibson the Peter Arno of the 1900's. Few dare hazard a guess of what Artist Arno will be capable...
Commented the boy's mother: "I guess we can only thank...