Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thought transference is one of the most fascinating fields of psychology, and is a never failing source of the unusual. No one can predict what will happen when the experiment, about to be attempted by the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, of conveying thought from France to Cambridge is carried out. There seems, however, to the ministrated layman, to be one rather important draw back which may stand in the way of a practicable system of mental communication. Granted that the receiver becomes aware of some perfectly splendid thought after he has placed himself in the prescribed attitude, there...
...date on which the first payments for this year were to be due. The reason for the Treasury's request was that returns had not been coming in as rapidly as usual, that it seemed that taxpayers were confused and were waiting to see what would happen before paying...
...Story.* To Selina Peake, girl, aged 19, her father gives the following advice: "The more kinds of people you see, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living...
...country as a whole cares very little who was elected Representative of the 19th Congressional District of New York (in Manhattan). But if the election should happen to decide who will be the next President of the U. S., the matter takes on a different complexion...
...year term in order that the next agreement might not be made in a Presidential year when all politicians are looking for the miner vote. After ten days of unostentatious conference, the agreement, covering the soft coal fields of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, was signed. Good things happen quietly...