Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently M. H. Landis and H. E. Burtt, psychologists at the Ohio State University in Columbus, reported to the Journal of Comparative Psychology the results of a similar analysis made on 500 conversations in that community, with a view to comparing them with the records of conversations heard on Broadway, Manhattan, where Dr. Moore made his observations. They listened in on conversations in restaurants, at basketball games, in theatre lobbies, in front of store windows, as well as on the University campus, in barber shops, churches, and on streets. The conversations were classified under ten headings: Business and money...
...Newer Republic," the April issue of the Harvard Advocate, deserves an honored place in that portion of the Hall of Fame devoted to parodies. The Editors are to be congratulated. They have created a journal, if anything, more imposing than the original. The only fault to be found with this number is that occasionally the likeness is too painfully like. This is inevitable, I suppose, under the circumstances, and the Editors of the Advocate have made the best of a difficult situation...
...precarious financial condition of Isis, an international magazine specializing in the history of science, edited for several years past by Dr. George Sarton. The sale for such a magazine is, of course, limited; Isis is in danger of having to discontinue. The aim is to make it the official journal of the new society and send it free to members on payment of $5 dues. The proposed organization will provide a meeting-ground for scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, representatives of special groups like archeologists and medical men who have been writing independently. Dr. David E. Smith, professor of mathematics...
...During the war he enlisted in the 27th Engineers and was transferred to the Intelligence Department under Major Rupert Hughes. He was discharged as sergeant shortly after the armistice. He returned to New York and was on the Wall Street Journal until coming west in 1920 on a special mission for the Republican National Committee...
...that electrical sparks twelve to eighteen inches in length were seen on the helium-filled Shenandoah on the night of its great adventure (TIME, Jan. 28) and that these sparks would have set it on fire, had it been filled with hydrogen, Dr. Howe-through the pages of his journal-demanded to know why this important fact has been overlooked in official and press discussions. "What is back of this obvious effort to have the American people forget helium...