Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed there was a good deal in it. ¶ Freud believed in the magic of numbers. In early life he greatly admired the theory of a close friend, Wilhelm Fliess, that important things happened to men in cycles...
...quiet morning soon after sunup, a big polyethylene balloon took off from near Minneapolis with a weird apparatus dangling far below it. Suspended in a frame was a reflecting telescope of 12-in. aperture built by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Its mirrors were made of quartz so that they would not be distorted by solar radiation, and it had an ingenious device to change the focus slightly during each sequence of 20 pictures. This would ensure that one of these pictures would be in good focus. Another device, assembled at the University of Colorado, had the duty...
...seniors led the freshmen through the dark house, amid weird groans and rattling chains. When they came to the kitchen they briefly flashed a light on the hideous but familiar form that hung limply and moaned softly. All the freshmen agreed that the hanging man was the scariest spook of all. Midway in the fun Mrs. Stevens slipped into the kitchen with her camera to get a picture. She called to Sallee. There was no answer. She turned on her flashlight. Somehow, as he had moved his feet on the littered floor, Principal Sallee had slipped; the noose had worked...
...Wide & Weird. The world of electronic journalism that Murrow bestrides runs a course far wider than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance...
When Faubus decided to move up in real politics, he got a weird political break. In 1954 he filed for the Democratic nomination for governor (means election in Arkansas) and found himself facing a Communist-association charge, from Governor Francis A. Cherry, who knew about those old days at Commonwealth College. Faubus panicked, lied; he declared publicly that he had never gone to the school. When Cherry proved it, Faubus admitted everything, said he went there because it was the only school a poor boy with one pair of pants could go to. had left when he found out what...