Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...Town (Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor) for Rinso. Substitute, starting July 25: The Human Adventure, a series of dramatizations, by CBS and the University of Chicago, of technological discoveries in the U. S. university research laboratories...
...Federation's research director, Alfred T. Falk, reported that Professor Rugg's book is used by 4,200 school systems which teach an estimated 3,000,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. high-school students. Mr. Falk found it full of "quaint economic theories." He was especially aroused by its chapter on advertising...
...scholar who set out to count the number of times the word the occurred in Shakespeare would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James...
Favorite subjects of research are Shakespeare (102 studies), Milton (46), Chaucer (44), Balzac (40), Goethe (39) and Spenser (33). U. S. writers in whom scholars are most interested are Whitman (16), Melville, Emerson and Poe (14 each). Compiler Osborn found many duplications, e.g.: Two scholars, at Southern Methodist and Ohio State Universities, are compiling bibliographies of Poet Archibald MacLeish's works...