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...altogether practical use has been found for the radio. Science has discovered, according to a report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
...proof: Your Oct. 12 issue, FOREIGN NEWS, Moroccan affairs...
...publication of this my statement in any newspaper of the State or in any other manner. Did not Mr. Keeling know that there are libel laws in the State of Texas? It surely must be libelous to print in Texas that anyone "encourages crime" unless one has definite proof. Mr. Keeling was very fortunate to escape prosecution...
Having tried out (unsuccessfully) for the $2,500 prize of The Scientific American (TIME, Feb. 23) for "proof of spooks," and having quarreled with Harry Houdini the Handcuff King (who claimed to have "shown her up"), Margery was invited to perform for a committee of experts at the Harvard University psychological laboratories. Scientists of no small account attended the seances-Drs. Harlow Shapley (astronomer), S. B. Wolbach (pathologist), W. J. V. Osterhout (botanist), Edwin G. Boring, William McDougall and Hudson Hoagland (psychologists...
Like Michigan, like Illinois, a cannonading team from the University of Pennsylvania gave proof that football games are apt to be won in the first half. Against Yale, it scored two early touchdowns, and ?for all that Yale could do?kept its lead to win by a nip and a field goal...