Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge denies this. In two paragraphs of his Memorial Day speech at Gettysburg, he cast aside the conclusions of the expert psychologist and criminologist, to avow his faith in the existent American machinery of justice. There might be grit in the works, but the design was good, and the wheels would revolve in silence when chicanery and flummery among judges was cleaned...
...writer Julian Green shows unmistakable talent, as a psychologist he is convincing beyond question, but as a novelist he has yet to achieve something of universality. As in his first novel, Avarice House, not a single character has charm or kindness-nothing but selfishness, fear, jealousy. Adrienne is said to be beautiful, but her submissiveness, her exasperating inhibitions, make her so unattractive that it is difficult to be as sorry for her as one no doubt should...
Miss Congo was one of the few young females in the U. S. who believed in the serious salon. Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived...
...adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership in the light of psychiatry and psychology: a psychologist is going to England and the Continent to study current work in the psychology of industry with particular reference to industrial morale...
There were several other classifications in which not many minutes were spent. At the University of Toronto, Canada, Psychologist J. W. Bridges asked 168 students to answer some questions the answers to which could be considered "symptomatic...