Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell fumble early in the second half set up the next varsity score. Taylor bobbled a handoff on his own 35, and Hank Keohane recovered. Six plays later Ravenel went over from the ten to put Harvard two touchdowns ahead...
...view of hypnosis by Robert W. White, professor of Clinical Psychology. Basing his experiment on the hypothesis "that much hypnotic behavior results from the subject's conception of the role of the hypnotic subject, and by explicit and implicit cues provided by the hypnotist and the situation," Dr. Orne set up two groups of hypnotic subjects. Two separate lectures on hypnosis were given in an introductory psychology course. In one the erroneous impression was given that catalepsy of the dominant hand (the hand stays put wherever it is placed) is typical of the hypnotic state. This point was omitted entirely...
...cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...
...Society to lend to Jasper on mortgages. All told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million of its currently estimated $40 million in assets, some $10.3 million without any security. To get around a law requiring that building societies list separately every mortgage over $14,000, Jasper and the Building Society set up a string of more than 451 phantom companies with such freewheeling names as Snowfleck, Pantic, and Vagid, lent them each something under...
Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...