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...orthodox psychologists maintain . a unique position as being the exponents of a shaky, very materialistic psychology, based on the already discarded concepts of the physicist and the biologist. Their position is now almost untenable, due to the confirmation of Rhine's findings at Columbia, the University of Colorado, N. Y. U., Harvard, Bonn University, Groningen, and Fordham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Teeth | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Given a one length advantage, the powerful Yardling crew was able to maintain its lead over the Varsity eight in a time trial over the Henley distance yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 OARSMEN BEAT VARSITY | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

While all this might seem as though France was backing down last week, the whole reason for the immense majorities voted to Premier Daladier was nationwide French confidence that he will resolutely take and maintain the firmest line with Italy and Germany, after first realistically taking losses which France has to take whether she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cabinet of Defense | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...American Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Too Much Debt | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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