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...tests for clairvoyance, the subject was required at first to name the design on each card as it was removed, face down, from the pack. Later he was asked to name the order of the pack as it lay untouched on a table. In the tests for telepathy he was required to guess the card visualized in the mind of a telepathic agent. Since each guess represented a choice of one design among five, the average expectation under the laws of chance would be five hits in a run of 25 cards. At first Dr. Rhine's subjects were close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blind Sight | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...MILLIONS -- When you pack into one film Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, t h e gags of Sheekman, Perrin and Johnson, the songs of Donaldson, K a h n, Lane, Adamson and Berlin, the dances of Seymour Felix, and the color combinations of Willy Pogany you have a Goldwynesque extravaganza that will wow you for a full hour and a half without the slightest bit of effort on your part. Despite the fact that some of the gags are already great-grandparents, Director Roy Del Ruth puts the products of these stars together into such a truly creditable production that...

Author: By Prof. METRO Ebb hacks, | Title: Report Card | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run to earth behind Schoolmaster Bozman's bookcase, the fox was torn to bits with much baying and yelping by the triumphant hounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whaddon Chase | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...perfect score; and Yale, in beating Cornell last Saturday, sent two men over the line within seven seconds of breaking the record. Princeton also, though lacking the balance which characterized Bonthron's team of last year, has two capable performers who look like good bets to lead the pack at the finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale and Princeton Harriers Arrive Today for H-Y-P Run | 11/1/1934 | See Source »

...methods this year, Professor Stone has been publishing the details of this difficult surgical procedure in the Annals of Surgery. By last week, when he was asked to tell the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) what he was doing, he had achieved sufficient boldness to pack his whole story into a few simple sentences. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gland Grafts | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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