Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tete-Ansa, a Gold Coast prince who is considerably blacker (see cut) than his country's cocoa, is inclined to blame it on the British. "One day in 1916 I had a vision," he says. "I decided to give up being a prince and become a businessman." He handed over his social duties to a younger cousin, and devoted his time to the flea he had in his ear about the British...
...minority"-the anima or feminine side of the man's unconscious-makes vigorous objection. In a subsequent climax-dream the patient felt an "impression of the most sublime harmony," which marked the turning point of his psychological development or, in terms of religion, his conversion. This dream, a vision of what the patient called a "world clock," was in the form of symbols which had appeared in previous dreams, and which Dr. Jung, making the chief point of his lectures, declares have been in men's unconscious minds for 2,000 years-regardless of whether...
Eyes have two small types of elements on the retina, rods and cones. The rods are used in half light or in darkness, while the cones are used in color vision. It has already been known that there is a visional purple partly composed of vitamin A, which is used in seeing with the rods; it is this that has led to the recent research into the connection between night blindness and vitamin...
Tests for vision, steering and vigilance, are to be included and of course the bureau expects to gain important data on women's reactions. The name of the lucky Harvard graduate who is to make the tests was withheld for diplomatic reasons, but the girls were assured of two things by the bureau. His suit will be pressed and his hair will be cut, for the bureau is paying for both...
...prints, drawings, watercolours, and oils exhibited at the Germanic Museum, one can see clearly the richness of the imagination of this artist and his enormous creative facility. The brilliant pigment is broadly handled and fluid in the manner of the impressionists but with a depth of vision never attained by them...