Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of turning out a newspaper in Bermuda are many and complex, the foremost being the difficulty of obtaining news. Next to this comes the problem of finding out the color of the Names in the News. When Bermudians read about T. V. Soong or F. D. Roosevelt or H. Selassie, they like to close their eyes and visualize, and they can't do this unless told the exact hue of these celebrities...
When the eastern branch of the American Psychological Association convened in Manhattan last week, no less than three papers were read on the Rhine question, all of them hostile. Small, vehement Psychologist Hyman Rogosin of New York City declared that...
...scores, or the possibility that some of his subjects had juggled the results to please their mentor. He asserted that ESP cards are so heavily printed that the designs can be told either by sight or by touch from the back, proved this point when he correctly read 24 out of 25 ESP cards whose faces he could not see. Psychological chuckles filled the hall...
When A. T. & T. President Walter Gifford read these recommendations he exploded in wrath: "The investigation . . . was one-sided from start to finish. We were denied not only the right to cross-examine investigation witnesses and to be heard in our own behalf but were denied the right to have included in the record written material which we had prepared and considered necessary to point out serious and important errors affecting most of the investigators' reports. Commissioner Walker's report must be appraised in light of these facts. ... It presents much that is imply not true...
...America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell rhetoric"), he grows eloquent only about the Spanish civil war. After seeing Madrid under siege, feeling uncomfortable talking to soldiers because he could remember how he felt when journalists visited the front during the War, Dos Passes...