Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, sponsored by the Mooseheart (111.) Laboratory for Child Research of the Loyal Order of Moose and the University of Chicago...
...Arthur Salter, who edited the symposium, concludes by weighing the merits of British and U.S. radio. "The American system . . . gives the listener without license fee a greater variety of programs. It has two disadvantages which have made this country prefer a public monopoly. There are the irritating interruptions of the advertiser; and the programs tend to follow rather than to lead the public taste...
...major achievement of the conference was a highly technical "Symposium on Chemical Abundances in the Universe." The astronomers presented further evidence on a favorite theory: in the deep interiors of the stars the nuclear transformations that occur are more powerful but very much like the changes that take place in the atom...
...Last week, mild-mannered Ephraim Freedman, who runs the testing laboratory for R. H. Macy & Co., got the job done. "Shortsightedness and selfish interests are hampering the production and delivery of the kinds of goods consumers require at prices they can afford to pay," said he at a textile symposium in Manhattan...
Dances, yesterday's symposium, and special entertainments rounded out the non-stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...