Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise in the world was accompanied by no spread in popularity. There are only twelve racquets courts which cost some $75,000 each, in the U. S. A few dozen more are scattered over the rest of the world, including London, Bombay and Calcutta. In the whole worl there are possibly 2,000 men who play racquets. Last week, in New York's Racquet & Tennis Club, two of them started something which, owing to the scarcity competition, occurs...
...insulin on Viennese schizophrenics. Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine he frankly declared that he does not know how and why his cure works, that it is indubitably effective. He has cured hundreds of cases of schizophrenia at his Vienna clinic by means of insulin injections. Dozens have been cured in private and public mental hospitals in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, England. Young Dr. Joseph Words of Manhattan, who brought the insulin treatment for schizophrenia to the U. S. two years ago, paved the way for Dr. Sakel's appearance in Manhattan...
...moment WAE's plane was crashing is similar to Pan American's. Called "the radio direction-finder and anti-rain-static loop antennae," it was developed by TWA's communications department under Engineer John Curtis Franklin. Radio direction-finders are not new, come in a half-dozen makes (TIME, March 25, 1935). In general they are doughnut-shaped loops sticking through the fuselage. By turning the loop and listening, the pilot can learn the direction of any radio station, for when the loop faces directly toward the station the signals disappear. A pilot can get bearings...
...what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border and the trenches of the Western Front. In that crowded industrial area, in 1914, were three towns, a dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent every type of noncombatant, every fortune of war. In 707 pages Author van der Meersch tells their grim four-year tale, from the first days of the invasion to the final German retreat...
...source of unending wonder to Secretary of the Interior Ickes is the number of remarkable and recurring "coincidences" in which half a dozen big U. S. manufacturers submit secret bids-identical down to the last decimal-for Government contracts. Last week it was the Navy's turn to wonder at bids, though not at identical ones. For the first time in official memory the Government could get no bids at all on something it needed...