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Three years ago Dr. May and colleagues decided that if the study of human relations was to become a science, they should, like other scientists, find a hypothesis to unify their research, test it, eventually reduce it to mathematical formulae. Thereupon they formulated a tentative theory with 14 definitions, eight postulates and about a dozen theorems. This theory was based on Sigmund Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists...
...autocracy the group ganged up on one child, treated him so badly that he dropped out of the club. Thereupon the club began to bully another "scapegoat...
...itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant of the Pacific, the Western Wonderland, the $50,000,000 Golden Gate International Exposition...
...maned U. S. expatriate muralist, brother of Novelist Stewart Edward White and Violinist Roderick White; after an intestinal operation; in Paris. Four years ago Henry Wallace tried to have one of Painter White's murals (once called "Ladies in Cheesecloth") removed from the Department of Agriculture Building, failed, thereupon attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde...
...Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance. Instead of the millions most people would have guessed, it totaled only...