Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touchy on this subject, President Roosevelt used a protest from the Lawyers Security League of Manhattan to defend his Civil Service record last week. Wrote...
...students how the human body was constructed. "Harriet" doubtless heard Dr. Weaver declare many a time that the study of anatomy was the most interesting of all the medical sciences. He loved anatomy so profoundly that he would never practice therapeutics as long as he lived. He loved the subject so deeply that he examined and helped identify 3,000 Confederate soldiers who had been buried on the battlefield of Gettysburg, close to which he was born...
...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons...
Hypnotized persons have such acuity of sense that they can detect the faintest whisper, the slightest odor. The unconscious mind is a wonderfully accurate timekeeper, as posthypnotic suggestion demonstrates. If during hypnosis the suggestion is made that at a certain time, long after waking from the trance, the subject take off his shoes or burst into tears, he will usually do so precisely on time, though he may not have looked at his watch for hours...