Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University's Teachers College in Manhattan last week a corps of researchers, up to their elbows in statistical reports, was busy proving Bill Smith wrong. Famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike and his staff were weighing not Zenith's food or its storefronts but its quality as a place to live...
Billed also as an "Ambassador of Sunshine," Albert de Quevedo has been lecturing throughout the U. S. for eight years. His de Quevedo Guild claims 15,000 members, each of whom Psychologist de Quevedo calls "his intimate friend." Since he began his lecture tours, Dr. de Quevedo has appeared in U. S. cities under the auspices not only of local Guilds but of such approved Catholic organizations as the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society. His Manhattan debut last week was endorsed by Fordham University (Jesuit...
Attracting audiences of 1,500 or so (mostly middle-aged women) to smallish Town Hall, Psychologist de Quevedo declared he would remain in Manhattan until his following would fill big Carnegie Hall. His lectures are free, but those interested could subscribe to a $15 course of study. As he always does, Dr. de Quevedo lectured sitting and .lolling on a table, and as always, called his listeners "darlings." So amiable, so vigorously sincere was Dr. de Quevedo's platform style, that his middle-aged female audience seemed well satisfied with the content of his message-mainly that will power...
...play's situation entangles a boy in love with boats and a lady Ph.D. immersed in case histories. Christine Lawrence, virgin psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce...
Four distinguished U. S. scientists, Arthur H. Compton, Geologist Kirtley F. Mather, Astronomer Harlan T. Stetson, Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, uttered hosannahs of approbation for a book The Advancing Front of Science* by George W. Gray, from which the above words are taken...