Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...
...least of all the dining hall officials should look wide eyed or askance at this proposal, or feel the stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables...
...Georgian campus at Homewood, three miles north of Baltimore's business centre. Nonetheless President Bowman soon discovered in his University symptoms of the creeping paralysis caused by financial malnutrition, signs that the decline which Hopkins fears had already begun. Before he had been long in office, famed Experimental Psychologist Knight Dunlap departed after 19 years at Hopkins for University of California, where he had been promised more money for his work. Then versatile Professor Chinard announced that, at this academic year's end, he too would be off to California. There were persistent rumors that other facultymen...
...Litel) who are so handy to dramas like Sweet Aloes. But Belinda is still miserable. She longs for her baby. She tortures herself with sweet memories of the Bay of Naples and bitter forebodings about her child's wellbeing. At this point an old family friend, a practical psychologist, learns that Belinda's former lover and his wife are in town. Ruthlessly, he brings the three together. This final implausibility is supposed to ease Belinda's mind and makes everything all right. It also makes a show which should provide female matinee audiences with agreeable thrills...
Daughter Hewitt claimed that the mental test had been given to her while she was suffering from appendicitis, that Dr. Tillman had told her it was merely to see "whether her heart could stand the ether for the operation." Some of the questions & answers on which Psychologist Scally based her mental rating: Q. What is the longest river in the U. S. A. I don't know. Q. How many years are there to a Presidential term? A. Two. Q. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? A. To make a pilgrimage...