Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just One Experiment. He disputes methods used to arrive at psi findings, suggests that all the tests could be frauds, possibly worked by "arguing that much good to humanity could result from a small deception designed to strengthen religious belief." If the findings of experimenters like Rhine and Soal are valid, says Price, they are "of enormous importance . . ." "As scientists." he asks, "what sort of evidence for ESP should we demand?" His answer: "Just one experiment that does not have to be accepted simply on a basis of faith in human honesty." His recommendation: apply Hume's precept with...
...Tass also has carried glowing accounts of the touring Russian agricultural delegation in the U.S. (TIME, August 1), but has not published dollars and cents figures on the income and wages of U.S. farmers and farmhands. In an article on the tour, Pravda said: "There is need to further strengthen the friendship, cooperation and mutual understanding in all fields [between] the two great countries." Russian papers have also been printing daily stories about the U.S. farm delegation touring Russia. The reports include statements from the Americans (which the Communist press does not.try to refute) that U.S. farm mechanization...
...agencies were doing their work but also whether the work should be done at all. Such evaluations were made on a premise candidly expressed. Said Herbert Hoover: "Private enterprise is the root of our system, and the underlying thesis of the commission has been to preserve and strengthen the fundamentals of our system and our Government...
...nuclear fear. But, Mr. President, don't feel that we so impatiently, so yearningly want these things that you need have any compulsion or temptation of any kind whatsoever to put your signature -at Geneva or afterward-to a commitment that could have any effect other than to strengthen the cause of freedom-of free peoples and free nations...
...Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. James H. Shaw and Dr. Paul L. Munson as associate professors of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology respectively. Greep said he expected the appointments greatly to strengthen the School's basic research program...