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...choir. Each year between 200 and 300 of St. Olaf's 1,000-odd muscular youths and placid maidens try out. The few who are picked have something to write home about. St. Olaf's choristers are held to their musical tasks with religious rigor. To be dropped from the choir is the greatest disgrace than can befall a St. Olaf student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At St. Olaf | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Canadian Medical Association Journal cites the case of a young lineman who was shocked by 26,000 volts, received immediate treatment by trained fellow-workmen, and after eight hours of unconsciousness began to breathe normally. "The only really safe plan," said the Journal, "is to continue efforts until rigor mortis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tough Baby | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...prove the existence of ESP, it would be necessary to exclude with scientific rigor the possibility of other reasons for the results. Rhine's opponents do not feel that he has excluded possible collusion, sensory cues or clerical mistakes in tabulation. It has been shown that under certain lighting conditions the ESP symbols show through the backs of the cards, and in some of the Rhine experiments the cards have not been screened from the view of the observer. Some scientists have criticized Dr. Rhine's probability mathematics; others declare that he has withheld some of his results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unconscious Whispering | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Pickwick's most painful encounters with the rigor of British Justice was located by Charles Dickens at the Ipswich Assizes, but last week it was seen in Ipswich how considerate Justice and the police could be of a wife in search of her second divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stag at Bay | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Scientists would deny that Subbayah's feat violates any physical or biological principle. Fakirs can induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body; fakirs are often unbelievably strong. When the tent walls close behind him, all that Subbayah conceivably has to do is to induce rigor, leaving one arm free to inch his body little by little up the stick. If the stick is off the vertical and slants away from his log-like body he can hang easily from its top, provided his centre of gravity is directly above the point where the stick enters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Levitation Photographed | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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