Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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1) Giant (George Stevens; Warner)
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson. Elizabeth Taylor. James Dean (TIME. Oct. 22).
Searching for new laboratory space in 1940, Stanley S. Stevens, professor of Psychology, turned to the eastern part of the basement of Memorial Hall. After an arduous period or reconditioning--he had to drain a room filled with a foot and a half of oil--Stevens founded the Psycho-Acoustical...
During the war, the scientific resources of the University were to a large extent dedicated to military research for the government. Stevens' laboratory was commissioned to investigate the effect of noise on human working efficiency. The findings revealed, rather unexpectedly, that there is no marked drop in efficiency with a...
Today, 80 years after their founding by James, the Psychological Laboratories continue their research into general experimental psychology under the directorship of Stevens, who took over in 1949 from the former director, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psycology.