Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilaga Indian children to everybody and everything, emotional qualifications of good teachers, infant pyromania, problems of old age. Cheerful social workers occupied most of the ballroom chairs, but the meeting was dominated by psychoanalysts, who gave evidence of the utility and freshness of old Sigmund Freud's ideas (see p. 41) whence they had all got theirs...
...anticipation of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins' maiden speech to U. S. Business (see p.11) the New York stockmarket last week popped out of its rut. More significant was the rise in stock prices morning after the appeasement speech-indicating that Wall Street at least was impressed. So was business generally. Although the New York Sun indulged in a Tory sniff ("Honeyed words, meaning little"), most press and business comments took the charitable point of view that Secretary Hopkins really meant what he said...
...enthusiasm for the biggest Douglas, reputedly because of high operation costs. Last week United Air Lines' crack Pilot Benny Howard was at Santa Monica getting acquainted with the DC-4, intended at week's end to take it out on U. A. L.'s system to see what could be done with...
...Manhattan, a Gallup poll claimed that 14,000,000 people have read all or part of Gone With the Wind, that 56,500,000 (65% of the movie public) want to see the picture. Of the 56,500,000, only 16% are dissatisfied with the choice of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett...
...hundred-ton cyclotron, one of the most powerful atom-smashers in the world, will be on view. In addition the visitor may see the new indoor wind-tunnel for testing airplane design; the new electron bombardment furnace, producing temperatures half as hot as the sun; the 100,000 - volt storage battery, most powerful in the world; the high-frequency radio equipment making automatic records of condition in the ionosphere; experiments which have led to a new theory of mountain formation; and many other laboratory features...