Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tulane University's Psychologist Harry ( "Uncle Harry") Miles Johnson, 65, a rumpled and violent lecturer who would roar long and loud at his own bewildering jokes ("What's the matter, sir? Don't you get the point, sir?"), hated to have women in his class ("Damn it all, Mrs. Brown, I wish you weren't here"), liked to announce his quizzes by pulling up his tie like a hangman's noose ("Well, I'm going hang you on Thursday. . . Any questions? ). An incorrigible mangler of names, Uncle Harry once bedeviled a student named Diket...
William James '69, the philosopher-psychologist. James founded America's first psychological laboratory and wrote influential works in the history of American philosophy...
...proved hardly adequate for rehabilitation. The new law would legalize other forms of "conditional placement", and would permit day work for women living in the Reformatory. Administration of this readjustment program would be placed under a qualified board consisting of the Reformatory superintendent, the deputy superintendent, the physician, the psychologist, and the chief social worker...
...psychologist, you understand why bettors are such suckers. It takes little mathematics to see that they are getting thoroughly milked by the odds in the numbers racket. One three-figure number, which has a one out of 999 chance of appearing, pays off only 600 to one. And as if a sure 40 percent weren't enough for the pool operators, they have instituted "half-numbers:" numbers which are bet more frequently than others, and on which for various reasons a significantly higher number of bets are placed than simple odds would predict. These numbers--there are close...
...think it would be wise if Psychologist Charles would read a few lines written by Robert Burns on the subject of talking about other people and their manners...