Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychology brought about this development which, little known to most students, has been going on slowly since 1940. In that year of anxious peace in the United States, the Psychology Department, in its cramped old quarters on the top floor of Emerson, called for more space to initiate a Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory to do original research on the problems of sound and its effect on the human car and mind...
Starting modestly in the deep sub-basement that had once housed the independent heating plant for Memorial Hall, the laboratory began exploration into a field which had not been long out of the stage of tuning forks and eartrumpets. A year later the country went to war, and the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and its findings became another secret, government-directed, war research laboratory whose discoveries became known to the general public only last winter...
There are no bodies, mysterious train rides, or psycho-analysists in this latest slick Hitchcock production. The theme of this one is love, with some international intrigue and atmospheric photography thrown in for ballast...
This cured me of: sinus, headaches, constipation, insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, nervousness, poor appetite, palsy of the larynx, sore eyes, nervous perspiration, chronic depression and strained human relations, to mention a few of my former disorders. But, during those four years as a psycho, I did as good a job as anyone...
...Psycho acoustic lab had been requested by the surgeon general's office to investigate the 14 hearing appliances then on the market. Unlooked for results of their research were revolutionary improvements in hearing aids for the deaf, by-products of urgent military research...