Word: subjection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death of the Reorganization Bill, the Executive Committee of the Yale-Harvard-Princeton Conference on the advice of their Faculty Committee men has changed the subject of Table Four to "Government and the Current Depression." Guests at the table will include industrialists, bankers, and representatives of the government...
...Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage. On the 21st anniversary of U. S. entry into the War he published his findings. Called by Historian Henry Steele Commager the most thorough and dispassionate book on the subject that has appeared, America Goes to War* is a volume of 731 closely-printed pages, with controversial footnotes swarming like bees around the bottom of most pages, is at once a history and a primer of diplomacy...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...
Ideas included a new technique developed by German psychologists, for revealing musical talent in one-year-old infants. System: Stimulate subject 1) by striking a clear-toned bell. 2) by uttering a Bronx cheer. If subject goo-goos pleasure at sound of bell and cries at sound of Bronx cheer, musical talent is not necessarily proved, may be reasonably suspected...
Milestone of Science No. 1, however, was contributed by Columbia University's Dr. Gregory S. Razran, reporting results of a year's experiment at a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Manhattan. Subject: the effects of free lunch on various forms of artistic appreciation (see p. 54). Psychologist Razran's conclusions indicated that with enough free lunch "you can practically make an individual like anything." He admitted that it took one subject five lunches before she liked the piano music of Modernist Aaron Copland. "But she did come to like it, and after she did, gave...