Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prof. Walter V. Bingham, of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, tested 100 successful business men and secured results corroborating Dr. Cattell's statements. No significant relation was found between intelligence, as measured by the Army tests, and relative success in business, though 83% of the group made first-class scores. Two of the lowest scores were made by presidents of large concerns...
Cases of sex reversal in insects and crustaceans were cited by Prof. C. L. Turner, of Beloit College, who found that 88% of the female crawfish in a Wisconsin lake had developed male characteristics, possibly from disease. The recent work of Professor Crew of Edinburgh (TIME, Oct. 15) in controlling the sex of chickens is another case in point...
...Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted." A "big crowd" marched to his theatre. There a policeman smilingly agreed to submit to Langster's eye. Having hypnotized him, the professor handed the policeman a stick, said: "This is a revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...
...Prof. Langster and the policeman were held...
Palestine. Traces of the ancient city and citadel of David on Mount Ophel, near Jerusalem, were discovered by the joint expedition of the London Daily Telegraph and the Palestine Exploration Fund, under Prof. R. A. S. Macalister. The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...