Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Duke University presses last week appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal of Parapsychology, first publication in this field ever sponsored by a reputable university. Well-printed, with a plain, pleasing cover in blue on rag paper, the journal will appear quarterly. Annual subscription: $3. Editors are Dr. Rhine and famed, contentious old Psychologist William McDougall, who raised the eyebrows of orthodox science by dabbling in parapsychology even before the Rhine experiments at Duke got under...
...second half of 1937-38: Vincent G. Dethier 1G, of Jamaica Plain, Edgar V. Seeler, Jr. 4G, of Newtin Square, Pennsylvania, Howard H. Vogel, Jr. 1G, of Woodmere, New York, assistants in Biology
...nowadays, this plot might work itself out through a few scenes of drama, some (in this case good) comedy, and so on, to the final reconciliation. Francis Larrimore would be given her chance to show herself in her debut, and all would be quite regular, and very, very plain. As a matter of fact, "John Meade's Woman" does end with the necessary reconciliation, but not before many quite irregular things have happened...
William C. Quigley, of Jamaica Plain Instructor at Princeton University, has been awarded the Woodbury Lowery Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for research in the archives of Italy. A graduate of Harvard College in 1933, he received an A.M. in 1934, and is at present working on a history of the "Kingdom of Italy under Eugene Beauharnais...
Northerners called it the Rebellion; Southerners, the War between the States. Historians refer to it as the Civil War. But what plain folks called it while it was going on, few Northerners or Southerners or historians can now tell convincingly. To roll back time 75 years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly...