Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mathematical argument. Dr. Kellogg accused Dr. Rhine of underestimating the chance probability of high scores. He declares that the normal probability curve, used by Dr. Rhine, requires for proper operation chance scores as far below the average as good scores go above it. That would require some scores below zero-an absurdity. He also charges that Dr. Rhine evaluates only favorable scores, ignoring others; that he pays no attention to the internal inconsistency of his results; that the presence of sensory cues or some other extraneous factor is indicated by higher scores when conditions are such that the chance...
Died. Osgood Perkins, 45, suave stage and screen actor (Beggar on Horseback, The Front Page, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ceiling Zero, Point Valaine, etc.); of a heart attack after the opening performance of Rachel Crothers' Susan and God, in Washington...
...opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost zero level with the prizefight public when he posed for a picture with onetime Champion Braddock, onetime Champion Max Baer, onetime Contender Harry Wills, as his "advisers" (see cut). In the fight,' however, Joe Louis did not hit as hard or as accurately as the experts thought he would and Farr...
...providing Germany with a million fully-equipped troops, faced with the expense of a grandiose public-works scheme, shrewd conservative Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, has long been doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such raw materials-copper, tin, oil-as she cannot manufacture synthetically...
...furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land...