Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
...nation. No other suffered such cruel losses of territory after defeat in the World War. Her currency is still debased, her people impoverished. She is disarmed, and yet her public peace is menaced by the organized brigands of Macedonia. Therefore when 30 earthquake shocks smote Bulgaria, last week, the phenomena seemed like the act of a malignant and relentless...
Whatever may have been the reasons for his writing about twins in these plays and others, it was a fortunate compulsion. Twins, are among the most engrossing of human phenomena. Twins are principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins...
...degree. He must hurdle the College Boards to get in, and Divisionals to get out. The list is long, but one hesitates to continue, lost this member of the Class of 1932 be frightened away,and the University lose a most interested student, and compilers of college phenomena a most interesting subject...
...Campbell, professor of Psychiatry and director of the Massachusetts Psychopathic Hospital, discussed crime from the viewpoint of medical psychology. According to Dr. Campbell the field of the medical man is limited to understanding such phenomena and abnormalities of life as are not infrequent among criminals, studying behavior and mental conditions preceding crime, as much as it is possible for medical science to determine should be the share of the physchiatrist." Dr. Campbell asserted...