Word: psychos
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...free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouerie Dr. Brian Brown unconsciously voiced this disapproval by saying that "Psychology is the hero and heroine of every piece of fiction." It is apparently with the psychological and psycho-analytical novel and play that too many people, according to Dr. Guthrie, have "doped themselves...
...psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints...
However, it is quite possible that the famous psycho graphologist may prove himself to be the type of detective most suited to modern conditions. It is certain that he has been of considerable help to the Vienna police in recent years in furnishing them with new clues and theories. At any rate, Mr. Schermann does not indulge in table rappings and ectoplasills, which is a most promising sign...
...African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
Hundreds of children are now being examined by Professor Dearborn and his staff at the psycho-educational clinic at the University, which has been specializing for several years in the measurement of intelligence and the testing of school accomplishment. Each child is given intelligence tests (group and individual); has his school accomplishment measured by means of standardized tests in reading and arithmetic; and has his teacher's judgments and observations of the above recorded. His height, weight, and bodily proportions are also measured; his physical condition is observed; his teeth are examined to see how the process of dentition...