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Word: furnished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuance of the forest, however, was contingent on the University being able to finance the considerable operating cost of salvaging the down timber and on determining whether there was enough of the Forest left to furnish the basis for a long range experimental program. Neither of these essential facts was or could be known to me at the time of the interview; but since then, I am glad to say, both questions have been answered in the affirmative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forest Will Keep Up Work Despite Damage of Storm | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...Carnegie group has claimed that "examinations for the measurement of various types of academic achievement and aptitude have been developed to such a degree that the results of such tests are known to furnish valuable information for the self-guidance of the student examined and for the better understanding of the student by the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Are Subjected To Aptitude Tests Before Specializing | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...Groups in many countries have asked to furnish and equip different rooms. Certain rooms will be set aside where businessmen, labor leaders, members of Parliament and other national leaders can confer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Social Note | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose of his experiment. Near the "sender" but unknown to him was installed a six-foot parabolic reflector to project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unconscious Whispering | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Servite fathers had found that the average individual contribution by a "Novenite"-3?-totaled enough to pay novena costs, sometimes build up a surplus. At Father Keane's church the surplus was large enough to furnish snappy uniforms for the male ushers at services, and to uniform 400 members of a new Novena Auxiliary Club for young women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Air-Conditioned | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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