Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate...
...courtroom and beyond the judge's normal jurisdiction. To keep trials decent outside as well as inside, the report concludes: "This committee is clear that if local bar associations would resolutely enforce the obvious and known requirements of the code of professional ethics upon the lawyers who are subject to the disciplinary actions of the Bar, a very substantial part of the most glaring evils of improper publicity would be overcome...
...expected. But in Dr. Rhine's great mass of recorded experiments there are long series of trials in which the hits are much higher than chance expectation-seven, eight, even nine hits per 25 tries. According to his mathematics the probability that chance might account for one subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects...
...publishes New Frontiers of the Mind,* which is the October choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the most part it covers the story as narrated in his previous writings, with some addition of philosophical and anecdotal material. The author tells, for example, how he spurred a subject to guess every card right in the pack of 25 by betting him $100 on each card. He also confesses that...
Copeland, Picking up where Secretary Hull left off on the subject of world chaos, dry Dr. Melvin T. Copeland* of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration dwelt long and lovingly on commodity prices as a reflection both of U. S. trade and of the state of the world. Be cause of trade barriers and the nationalistic spirit, commodity prices began a general decline in 1925 which continued after the crash of 1929. On war demand and business revival early this year they had a strong comeback until the speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt...