Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general purpose of our research . . . was to find out, if we could, something that would enable us to place the mind of man in a definite relation to the world of law and causation which our senses and our sciences have represented to us." So writes Dr. J. B. Rhine of the experiements and research which have been carried on for the past seven years at Duke University. Questions as to the possibility of the existence of a "sixth sense"; of mind-reading, and mental telepathy--questions which have puzzled the mind of man for centuries--are found here...
...Frontiers of the Mind" is a valuable contribution to the furthering of our knowledge of what the human mind actually is, or perhaps more properly, how the human mind functions and to what extent its powers may be and are extended. The story of the Duke experiments is in itself, even without considering its significance, an exciting one. With his colleagues, Professor Rhine set about testing the mind of the ordinary man. With a pack of specially prepared cards, they tried to ascertain whether the mind could display powers which could not be attributed to the functions of the known...
...While it is the opinion of this department that too many of the pieces fall into the pictorial category, it is actually unfair to criticise. Some of the pictures that seemed a little too similar to postal card art may well have been taken with such a purpose in mind...
Stating that NRA had disregarded the interests of consumers, Dr. Lloyd G. Reynolds, of the Economics Department, speaking on "Corporations and the Courts" in the fourth of the fall series of radio programs sponsored by The Harvard Guardian, called on government to make up its mind between enforced competition under the Sherman Act, or public regulation of industry...
...Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during a cloudburst. Before the night was over Myron had backslid as far as he could go. But when he offered to marry her she said he was too mixed-up in his mind to make a husband. By the time she changed her tune. Myron had finally made peace with his Navajo gods, had finally renounced his mission-learned, mixed-up ways...