Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given out by the Committee of the Associated Industries was perfectly accurate. We made a personal search in four selected industrial establishments for young people of marked promise. We found a certain number of boys who were commended by their foremen and superintendents and brought them over to our Psycho-Educational Clinic for intelligence tests. The results ought not to have been taken as showing that anyone we found is a genius. Intelligence tests do not reveal genius and are not intended to prove that those who rank high on them are going to set the world on fire...
...free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouerie Dr. Brian Brown unconsciously voiced this disapproval by saying that "Psychology is the hero and heroine of every piece of fiction." It is apparently with the psychological and psycho-analytical novel and play that too many people, according to Dr. Guthrie, have "doped themselves...
...psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints...
However, it is quite possible that the famous psycho graphologist may prove himself to be the type of detective most suited to modern conditions. It is certain that he has been of considerable help to the Vienna police in recent years in furnishing them with new clues and theories. At any rate, Mr. Schermann does not indulge in table rappings and ectoplasills, which is a most promising sign...
...African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...