Word: darrah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another authoritative psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Wallingford Darrah of Gardner, Mass., wondered if there is a mentally normal person in the whole world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
...prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana...
Raymond S. Clark heads the committee of six Seniors who have made the nominations for the election. Other members of the Committee are: Theodore S. Darrah, F. Stanton Deland, James L. Kunen, Richard Maguire, George S. Squibb, and Edwin O. Tilton...
Previously, the cross-sections taken were much thicker and darker and could not be magnified beyond 60 diameters. The new process, perfected by William Darrah, instructor in Botany, reveals the cellular construction of fossils with heretofore unequalled clearness...
...most important fields opened up by the new technique is the detailed study of the plant life involved in the formation of anthracite coal and petrified woods. Never before have botanists been able to secure satisfactory microscopic specimens from these hard rocks. Mr. Darrah has succeeded in making fossil peals of both coal and petrified woods, among them specimens containing the remains of pollen grains more than 200,000,000 years old from a coal deposit in Illinois...