Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China the Japanese pressed ahead. Copying the British fashion, they bombed with leaflets. But as usual the copy was inexact: not following British restraint, the Japanese simultaneously bombed with bombs, horribly, killing 400 and wounding 400 in Lu-chow, a city without medical supplies. In Shanghai the Japanese military moved towards a showdown with foreigners. U. S., British, French and Italian defense-force commanders were called together and told that international defense of the International Settlement ought to give way to Japanese defense-of what would then no longer be an International Settlement. But lest this be construed...
Practitioners of an inexact science torn by dissension, psychologists are often suspected of having an inferiority complex. If they are so afflicted, they seldom betray it in public. Last week, however, Dr. Gordon W. Allport of Harvard, retiring president of the American Psychological Association, declared that as prophets of human behavior psychologists are not in the running with statesmen, lawyers and headwaiters...
Next day Skobline's wife, Nadine Plevitskaia, a dark singer with tragic features, was questioned at police headquarters. Police found her answers to questions "sometimes reticent, contradictory or inexact." She said she wanted protection, asked to be put up for the night. Finally she was arrested on suspicion of complicity...
...Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words. Recently, however, Northwestern University's Psychology Professor Robert Holmes Seashore* devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that...
...field of Psychology is medium-sized, having 63 concentrators, and is considered about the easiest in the College. The department is characterized by brilliant researchers, and poor tutoring. Since the subject is an inexact science, credit is given on examinations for original thought, making it still simpler to get by with a minimum of formal work. But pseudo-psychologists are warned that unless they have a real interested in the research possibilities of this growing subject, they will have a lonely and neglected academic three years...