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Professors, some of whom were hustled off from U.S. campuses at only 24 hours' notice, found their new students quicker and mentally tougher than their old, and ready to say so if they were either bored or unconvinced. Says University of Chicago's Dean John Dale Russell, who heads the faculty: "We have never been on the spot like this before, but we love...
Portuguese growers in the Azores knew a century ago that burning wood in their hothouses made the pineapples ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...
...more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that libido includes other drives besides sex); ditto for the school of Adler (which invented...
...recorded in votes counted today. I have therefore laid down the charge which was placed upon me in darker times. I regret that I have not been permitted to finish the work against Japan. For this, however, all plans and preparations have been made and results may come much quicker than we have hitherto been entitled to expect...
...save space with our verbs too. Why say "walked vigorously" if we can say "strode,""marched,""tramped" or "stomped" and be quicker as well as more explicit...