Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject makes a high average score on a succession of runs he is said to possess a large measure of "ESP" ability. The mean average of "hits" according to Duke psychologist Dr. Rhine is five. Huntington by mathematical analysis arrives at approximately the same figure...
...stands, it appears entirely vague, unworkable, and unrepresentative. No mention is made of how the students who are to gather undergraduate opinion will be chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment as a result of poor grades." But the committee cannot seriously believe that a man, with his fingers upon a Magna or Summa, will be impartial...
...feel constrained to take two advanced chemistry courses, or perhaps even do research work. In such a case, his laboratory hours are indefinitely long. Thus, throughout most of his college career he spends all of his afternoons, and most of his spare morning hours in Mallinckrodt. This does not mean that his evenings are free, for then he must study chemistry...
...mean the border-town editors, don't make me laugh. They know Mexican revolutions-some of them as far back as nearly half a century. And they don't get excited, especially over a purely local affair as was the case in the Matamoros incident referred to. And that wasn't a Gold Shirt movement...
...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...