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Word: telepath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating, 1,250,000 replies came in from some 100,000 receivers. In positive language the announcer told the listeners that they were picking them right with remarkable frequency. But Psychologist Goodfellow, after studying the results of 15 broadcasts, pricked Telepath McDonald's iridescent bubble. Though he found 572,873 correct answers, where chance should have brought only 568,215, he said: "There is no evidence of extrasensory perception in these experiments." He explained that listeners made their guesses on the basis of preferred patterns and symbols, did well only when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Patterns and Peephole | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...brother-in-law, Robert L. Irwin, was another man with whom she was in excellent psychic rapport. She at Long Beach, Calif, could telepath his sketches from Pasadena, 25 airline miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telepathy | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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