Word: psychics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arbor, 80,000 Midwest rooters turned out for the 36th annual Michigan-Ohio State game, watched Tom Harmon & Co., with the aid of Old 83 ("a sort of psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than...
...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...
About the cause & cure of drunkenness doctors know little. But recently many of them have swung around to the theory that every drunkard is a spineless neurotic, driven to drink by some psychic gnawing...
...good effects immediately after treatment, may take several months to "ripen" into sanity. Best results occur in young patients, between the ages of 17 and 25. But more stable is the sanity won by persons of more mature age, who do not have to contend again with the psychic hazards of adolescence. For schizophrenia victims who have been ill more than six months, there is little hope, although obstreperous patients may become gentler, more obedient after treatment. Quick treatment is important after symptoms emerge...
...What psychic forces drove Adolf Hitler into war last week nobody knew for certain, but it was recalled that he had been reported to believe in astrology, and all astrologers agreed that September 1 was his fateful day. Reports of his talks with Sir Nevile Henderson and French Ambassador Robert Coulondre suggested even stranger reasons. He had said that he must accomplish his mission in Europe within 24 months because "I have other work to perform." To Sir Nevile, Hitler was quoted as having said: ''All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils...