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Word: triede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For six years Miss Louise Omwake, a psychology teacher at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, N. J., has tried to find out how honest ordinary people are. She devised a test, gave it to 198 girl students at her college. To encourage candor, she let them answer anonymously. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Honesty Test | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior John A. West Jr., like many another near-graduate, began to think about getting a job. Having failed to get one by ordinary methods, John West tried a novel scheme. He wrote a note, made 81 copies, slipped each copy into a bottle, mailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stranded | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

To date Dr. Strock has tried his vitallium pegs out on eleven patients. How long the teeth will stay put, cautious Dr. Strock would not say, but he remarked that one patient has been using his tooth for a year and a half.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peg Teeth | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

A common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Ears | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

In the 25 years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truly Monstrous | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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