Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have given one of the best accounts and explanations of a religious group that I have ever read. As a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and of Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia) I have frequently been distressed by the entire lack of understanding the Press and public seem to have of our organization...
...gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another day that Japanese headquarters were tense with strain-afraid of sudden intervention by Soviet Russia should it seem to Moscow that Tokyo's forces are overextended. In a stiff note this week Moscow explicitly rejected Japanese charges that Chinese planes disguised as Japanese were going to bomb the Soviet Embassy at Nanking, warned that if it is bombed under any circumstances the Soviet Union will hold Tokyo...
...Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber...
...would seem to laymen that Dr. Rhine has built up an airtight case for the existence of clairvoyance and telepathy. But certain scientists have criticized his mathematics and others his methods. Last week Professor Chester E. Kellogg, Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University, published in The Scientific Monthly a categorical criticism of the Rhine studies under the ironic title. "New Evidence (?) for 'ExtraSensory Perception...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...