Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thought transference is one of the most fascinating fields of psychology, and is a never failing source of the unusual. No one can predict what will happen when the experiment, about to be attempted by the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, of conveying thought from France to Cambridge is carried out. There seems, however, to the ministrated layman, to be one rather important draw back which may stand in the way of a practicable system of mental communication. Granted that the receiver becomes aware of some perfectly splendid thought after he has placed himself in the prescribed attitude, there...
...Practical Religion" by the devout Herbert Poley argues eloquently for the Hartford Plan to remedy ecclesiastical ills, the essence of which is to embrace theoretically opposite views at the same time, and then to live according to the mean. Hartford, I predict, due to this article, will become the center of the next world movement for something or other...
...years ago, the annual indoor intercollegiate meet was won by Cornell, with the University team trailing behind in seventh place. Last year the team barely succeeded in tieing for sixth place. It is difficult to predict the outcome of today's meet, and yet it is safe to say that the University will emerge far nearer the top in the scoring list than in the previous two years...
...risk of crying "Wolf!" once too often it is necessary to predict another busy evening for the University basketball team when it encounters the dangerous New Hampshire State quintet at Hemenway tonight...
...seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts the exclusion law [now being discussed in Congressional committee]. The Japanese could not submit to the humiliation of being treated like Negroes. A prophet is not required to predict a crisis in American-Japanese relations. Every believer in world peace is duty bound to oppose the passage of this most unreasonable measure...