Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
Overactivity of the vagus nerve is tied up with overactivity of the thyroid. Goitres, said Drs. Nahum and Hoff last week, "change the heart in such a way as to make it susceptible to overactivity of the vagus nerve. Some patients are naturally subject to vagus action. Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve. In this way, overactivity of this nerve develops, which precipitates auricular fibrillation...
...Dupont Pratt, 65, son of the late Charles Pratt who made a fortune in Standard Oil; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove. L. I. Patron of many a public cause, he collected works of art. served ably as New York State Conservation Commissioner, helped found the Boy Scouts of America, develop Saratoga Springs...
...cash when, at 43, he was elected president of the Bank for International Settlements. B. I. S., known as the "Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop a profitable sideline in League of Nations loans and transfers among European banks. Last week President Fraser, deaf to all pleas from his B. I. S. associates, announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection when his term expires next May. Observers anticipated that since...
...position in governmental work or in certain types of private enterprise where he will get practical experience." He will return to the University for the final year, "which will knit together his study and experience." The plan is of interest to the undergraduate in that it hopes to "develop special orientation seminars in government, economics and allied subjects for men as mature as our graduates...