Word: q
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Q. Do you know Richard Whitney...
...human mind is a piece of machinery, which can be measured by the way it acts on raw material. Thus the psychologists feed into the machine a set of questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most eminent investigator in this field reported some significant...
...Thurstone gave his 56 tests to 240 students whose I. Q.'s were above average. But when the students had answered the questions, Dr. Thurstone's work had only begun. He proceeded to compare, analyze and plot the scores, to sift out, with exceedingly complex mathematical formulae of his own invention, the separate mental abilities he had measured. He found seven: ability in 1) numbers, 2) words, 3) visual imagery, 4) memory, 5) perception, 6) induction (finding a rule governing a set of facts), 7) verbal reasoning. Dr. Thurstone also isolated two additional factors that he was unable...
After receiving full powers, Premier Daladier at once convened the "Inner Cabinet," which he announced fortnight ago would be the G. H. Q. of his "Cabinet of Defense." Few hours afterward a French Cabinet, for the first time, had issued an ultimatum to Labor that a "humane evacuation" of the sit-down strikers by this week at the latest was desired. This evacuation would be achieved "for the common good," by whatever methods might prove necessary, M. Pierre Jacomet was appointed the Cabinet's special strike arbiter, and within 24 hours 25,000 sit-downers in Government aviation factories...
...approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter last year, department store sales were off 18% from 1937. For the week ending April 2, which was two weeks before Easter this year, department store sales were off only 2%. Q. E. D. said the Federal Reserve...