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Your book, for which many thanks, has kept me browsing agreeably for a week. I confess that I was more interested in gathering your own opinions than those of the innumerable professional psychologists whom you review and whose theses seem to me almost entirely verbal. In describing or judging a person or his life each epithet we use has slightly different connotations but is there any reason for trying to define exactly what each of these epithets ought to indicate everywhere? I doubt that particular instincts or organs need be found in people for each conventional quality. Still in proposing...
...verbal barrage came when all appeared more peaceful than it has in weeks. Only last Tuesday, Hall, who is chairman of the NCAA television committee, had granted a request by Murray for an unscheduled TV showing of today's Penn-Notre Dame game in the Philadelphia area. Arrangements were completed for the TV showing of the sell-out game...
Application blanks, bulletins, and sample questions are available at the E.T.S. office at P.O. Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey. Those interested in law will be tested for their verbal aptitude and reasoning power, with cramming useless. The graduate school exam includes a test of general scholastic ability and achievement in several broad subject-matter fields, with a few options available...
...plays Police Sergeant Joe Friday with a minimum of fake heroics. His cases range from simple theft to multiple murder, but the program is more concerned with the painstaking solving of crimes than with showing their gory execution. Once the entire half-hour was devoted to a verbal third degree, as Webb and his fellow detective, Ed Jacobs, broke down a coolly stubborn jewel thief...
Brazil's government is hostile to Lacerda, who has thrown verbal punches at many a government bigwig, from President Getulio Vargas down. But his reports were too well documented to be ignored. The foreign ministry replaced the charge d'affaires in El Salvador, recalled an accused consul from London, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to look into Lacerda's allegations...