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...Harvard is the first university in the world to make any such effort towards teaching the vital or dynamic side of psychology. Hitherto, all that has been taught and investigated is the static branch of the subject, which has not in itself any essential significanes...
...current situation remained static during the week. The average level of industrial stocks scarcely budged over the previous week's. Rails made a trifle better showing. Investors seemed marking time for a clearer prognosis of conditions...
...contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
...particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that the present American example of stupid boredom is but a transitional period of intertia, a static state of incubation, preparing the way for an eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores...
...only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This fact, together with economy of power consumption and the proven superiority of short waves in penetrating belts of static, is what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number. It means for radio what the discovery that many simultaneous messages could be sent over one wire, meant...