Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke University's Joseph Banks Rhine, inventor of the card-guessing experiments which he claims prove Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), a Rhine-ism for telepathy and clairvoyance. Last week, Dr. Kennedy reported an ingenious series of counter-experiments which many of Rhine's many critics will regard as the final nail in ESP's coffin...
...this is that the Leyden researchers work with magnetic fields up to 27,600 gauss (magnetic units), whereas Dr. Giauque must get along with 8,000 gauss until his university finds the money to string bigger power lines into his lab oratory. Another reason is that Giauque does not regard the pursuit of absolute zero as a competitive stunt, but as a means of studying entropy, and for this purpose the region within a degree of the zero is cold enough. Such study is a great chemical timesaver. For all chemical reactions must obey the laws of thermodynamics...
...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
...immediately apparent that Acting Comptroller Marshall Diggs, FDIC Chairman Leo Crowley and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau preferred to regard bank regulations as safeguards for depositors. Last week, after hot & heavy debate, the four reached a compromise "through the usual democratic processes of give & take." The National Association of Supervisors of State Banks approved. So did Franklin Roosevelt. The new rules go into effect July first. Important changes...
...forward, but not where, graduates of the past fifty years seemed to have evolved the tradition of money-grubbing by seeking positions which would pay the highest salaries merely because they did pay them. During the industrialization of the last century most millionaires made their wealth without social regard and only thought of society post facto--sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition to make money for the sake of money should have been buried with the primitive Forty Niners. The tradition of money-making has delayed intellectual...