Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loose change was going to Mr. Hopkins for his quick, small, cheap jobs?adding up to something like Mr. Hopkins' old "leaf-raking" CWA program. By March, declared the President, that program could be tapered off, and Mr. Ickes could get busy on whatever projects he had found before Dec. 15 which could be completed within a year, would cost no more than $850 per worker. Gloomily PWA officials figured that half their program would have to be junked...
...defined before a yardstick can be applied to it, that an individual's social value may be wholly unrelated to his IQ. These skeptics guffaw loudly when, every few months, some bright moppet turns up with an IQ claimed to be greater than Einstein's (TIME, Dec. 10). Lately the embattled proponents of the IQ, and of ability and personality tests in general, have strongly preferred "batteries" of examinations to single tests, in an effort to get a closer approximation of an individual's total mentality...
...Johns Hopkins transplanted thyroid tissue from one patient to another. Theretofore all tissue transplants either invalided the patient or died after doing only temporary good. Dr. Stone succeeded because he first soaked the thyroid tissue in serum from the blood of the patient who was to receive it (TIME. Dec. 18, 1933). By doing that Dr. Stone followed fundamental procedures developed by Dr. Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute...
Page Miss Glory. (Warner Bros.) On Broadway last winter this slight, satiric comedy on the lunacies of the beauty contest and advertising testimonial rackets enjoyed a modest success (TIME, Dec. 10). Eyebrows went up, however, when Warner Brothers paid $72,500, highest price in years, for the stage scripts as the first vehicle for Marion Davies under their management...
...were too confused last week to say precisely what they would do and when and how. Some talked of forcing the Government to take the initiative by deliberately refusing to obey the provisions of the act. Most logical time for such a test would be between Oct. 1 and Dec. 1 when 200 holding companies must register with the Securities & Exchange Commission...