Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third-degree technique in Rumania is Grade A, and coughing Katinka soon confessed to 25 specific kidnappings and sales involving girls aged between 7 and 9. Chief factor in the slaver's long-successful activities, police said, was her system of breaking the kidnapped children's morale and cowing them so thoroughly thai after being "sold" few of the "slaves" dared to run away. "I kept the children locked up in lonely houses and 'trained' them in my own way to be good workers," confessed tuberculous Katinka Barbalate. "Yes, I tortured them...
Keynoter was the association's retiring president, Budget Director Arthur C. Meyers of St. Louis (Aa), who said: "The main factor that makes the problem of Relief, unemployment, taxation and debt so difficult is the lack of cooperation between the different levels of government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor...
Though some connection between light and sex was thus made obvious, Dr. Perry was not convinced that it was a case of cause and effect. Perhaps, he reasoned, the radiation first altered some factor in the diet, which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...
...This interpretation, which . . . shifts the emphasis from light affecting the animal to light producing a change in the diet, may well apply to the seasonal sexual development of other vertebrates as well.* The results . . . point to an increase of Vitamin D or some kindred substance as the specific dietary factor...
...cycle to one of 28 hours. Kleitman had much difficulty, his periods of wakefulness and sleepiness and his temperature cycle clinging to the 24-hour schedule. This indicated that ability to break away from the 24-hour rhythm, while not impossible, varies with different individuals. Perhaps age is a factor, since Kleitman is 43 and Richardson only...