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Word: posted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncovering the beginnings of his interest in Psychology, since he can recall no particular traumatic experience that accounts for it. However," as a freshman in 1915 I was greatly perplexed by Muensterberg's thickly accented Germanic lectures in Psychology A. I puzzled over his worry as to whether 'zee post was zere or not zere'...I think my addiction to psychology since that time is due in part to my determination to unravel the Muensterbergian puzzles. I can't say I've solved them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Probably the most sensational come-back in the sphere of post-war revival has been made by the Harvard Dramatic Club. By announcing that the leading lady in their production of "Adam the Creator" would be clothed in three fig-leaves, news of the Sanders Theatre opening was carried on wings of news wire to every English speaking paper in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Back to Pre-War Production, With Heavy Spring Schedule Slated | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...more. He hurried to Washington, pleaded not guilty, and declared himself confident of vindication. But 71-year-old Andy May was a changed man. Required to post a $2,000 bond, the man who used to keep generals jumping asked the clerk humbly: "My heart is hurting me-can I sign something and go to my hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Very Warm for May | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...months New York City had been looking for a superintendent of schools. It was a prize job, the best-paid public school administrative post in the U.S.: $25,000 a year. The Board of Education declared itself ready to "shatter precedent in its effort to find the best man, regardless of geographic location or rank in service," to replace Superintendent John E. Wade, who must retire at 70 this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside Man | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...remarks (as Mr. Schofield would not have felt impelled to) on the blessings of being "a good American citizen living up to his highest principles in a good American community." That kind of thing would be enough to rejoice the shade of George Horace Lorimer, from whose Saturday Evening Post Tarkington earned riches for years. But it is not "investigatory" of anything that had not been investigated before and better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yay, Penrod | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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