Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...
...research, called by Dr. Carl Murchison, Clark psychology chief, for the express purpose of assembling all evidence pro and con on returned spirits and publishing an impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith...
MacDougall. Skeptical laymen were brought up short when Dr. Murchison read a paper contributed by Professor William MacDougall, Harvard psychologist, who sat on the Margery investigation committee. Dr. MacDougall was frank to say that ghosts, in his opinion, do exist. He lauded Clark University for agitating the question, urged other U. S. institutions to follow suit at once...
...market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...
Died. Austin Phelps Cristy, 76, founder and onetime editor and publisher of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram; in Worcester, by suicide. Starting the paper with $300 capital, he sold it for more than...