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...Last week a Chicago psychologist came up with a word-counting formula for measuring not readers but writers. Goateed, Russian-born Dr. David Pablo Boder, head of the psychology department at Lewis Institute (a technical school) and director of its Psychological Museum, called his formula the Adjective-Verb Quotient...
Taken as wholes, each of these stories is almost as warm, as living, as persuasive, as if a first-rate writer had written them. But they have a woman-magazine-overtone, a sort of moral odor of Ivory Soap which gets oppressive. Thus tuned for housewives, the high quotient of safe-and-sane marriages, superior wives, is notable...
Messrs. Lubin, Thorp & Henderson were unanimous that the Investigation must find a way to increase the earning-consuming quotient of the nation's low-pay masses if the U. S. machine's performance is to be made magnificent...
Generals and lieutenants alike now get a medical going-over once a year. However much he has done to raise the pep quotient, Malin Craig has not been able to do a great deal about age in the upper ranks. He ran into the facts that: 1) it takes a long while to make a colonel; 2) only colonels may be made generals. By last June 30. after two and one-half years of Malin Craig's regime, the average age of 46 brigadiers was down one year (to 59 years, two months): of 21 major generals, down...
...Where, it was announced last week, he has the highest intelligence quotient...