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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet, to dehydrate their brains and allow a greater volume of blood within their skulls. Within two months, all but one of the patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise Cure | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...they gathered a total of 33 points as against 0 for the players from Cambridge. The series, however, gave the squad some much-needed outdoor contact work, and, when they began outdoor workouts on the Business School Field after vacation, prospects for a fairly successful home season began to develop...

Author: By Richard England, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...develop more exact methods of finding out the who, what, when, where and why of radio listening, particularly on behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By-Products | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Although many new plays have been learned during the week, Skip does not expect that there will much opportunity to put them into service. With two weeks of outdoor practice in fairly suitable weather behind them, the Crimson have been able to develop and are no longer the raw material of the spring trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Men Will Oppose Stevens Institute | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...inter themselves at Harvard. Moreover, the system depends to a considerable extent upon a Yale that is agreeable to cooperation and ready to complement it with a similar set-up. Yet such objections do not invalidate the idea; and if this is accepted in its essence it can develop only with time. Provided the journey is made relentlessly but gradually and cautiously, the difficulties will resolve themselves with the benefit of this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWELFTH SPY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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