Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tests made at Duke University had shown the validity of Psychokinesis, the control of movement through thought. This was demonstrated, the Duke experimenters claimed, by people who apparently influenced the fall of dice by concentrating on what numbers would occur. So far the Harvard experiments have not borne out this theory...
...replace a large portion of its permanent staff in one year or in two or three years because of bunching of retirements or deaths. And finally, it gives a man who wants a permanent appointment to any department an exact date on which to expect a vacancy to occur...
...Chance. All that is known about the Rh factor has been learned since 1940, when it was found to occur in the blood of 85% of white people, more than 90% of Negroes. It causes trouble after Rh-positive blood (containing the factor) gets into the bloodstream of an Rh-negative woman (whose blood lacks the factor). This may happen either by transfusion or in carrying the child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant...
...Metro is closed from 1 until 6 in the morning. Rush hours occur just about the same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...
...must be proved that a problem actually exists and that complaints are not mere gripes. Last year's Council poll has proved completely useless in doing this. Until the Administration is convinced that the food is not good enough as it is, no major changes in the system will occur...