Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was. "Madam," said the scientist loftily, "intelligence is that which these measurements measure...
...County Society," said the Progressives' manifesto, "should study without prejudice all reasonable proposals made for the solution of the problem of medical care [and] . . . encourage well-planned experimentation in this field...
...gave his friend a small amount of the bland white crystals, both in capsules and injections. When the patient showed signs of improvement, Dr. Carroll continued feeding him from six to 14 grams of the drug every four hours for 16 days. In a few weeks the patient, said cautious Dr. Carroll, had "apparently recovered...
...been arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary for breaking into a neighbor's home, making off with two caged birds and a radio, which he said were really his. (Case was dismissed.) He had gone to Reno, hoping to persuade Mrs. Knight to drop her suit, "succeeded only in creating a rumpus," according to the New York Daily Mirror...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...