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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three policemen and 100 cheering students watched the next champion, M. I. T.'s six-foot-four Albert E. Hayes Jr., wash down 42 fish with four bottles of chocolate soda. He stopped, explained Freshman Hayes, because '42 were his class numerals. Said he: "You lay the goldfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

"If we are to control and modify abnormal behavior, extensive knowledge concerning the bases for temperamental differences is required. Why does one child have a temper tantrum when in the same situation another child remains composed? . . . Why does Miss Jones embarrass her instructor with an hysterical outbreak [on] receiving a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emotional Rats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

So wrote Professor Calvin Springer Hall Jr. recently in an article entitled "The Inheritance of Emotionality," published in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emotional Rats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

A nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Softness for Safety | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers' precocity was not confined to her stage career. At eleven, she played a piano solo of MacDowell's To a Wild Rose in a Fort Worth auditorium. At 17, she married a vaudeville hoofer named Edward (Jack) Culpepper. Ginger left Culpepper three months later, divorced him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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