Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though firm believers in spiritualism and implacable non-believers may not be swayed by anything they read, for persons willing to hear from both camps two new books were at hand last week containing excellent statements pro & con. One author is a Baltimore-born Johns Hopkins psychologist who does his ghost-hunting with affability and scientific guile. The other is an elderly, dead-earnest, British-born spiritualist who has written some 70 books and papers on psychic phenomena, now heads the American Psychical Institute. All that the two books have in common is that both are readably written and each...
Long on the list of WPA projects was a bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick...
...high-strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer, geologist, big-game hunter, animal psychologist, author, cineman, scientist...
...Vagabond is glad to have this opportunity to welcome Springfield. All he knows about them is what his Sunday-school teacher told him. And for that, for everything he wishes them a nice time. It was from Springfield, he recalls, that a psychologist not so long ago broke into print by breaking the ice in the local lake and saving a drowning terrier. Gentlemen, Welcome to Harvard...
...killed John Brunen, circus-owner, to get his business was suspected by Psychologist Parker because his alibi was so good. Innocent people usually do not remember exactly wrhat they did on the night of a crime...