Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief concern among medical educators of late has been the rapid growth of specialization. As the result of statistics already on hand, the powers-that-be have decided, according to Columbia University's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country...
Hormones of the endocrine glands control the growth of hair. The adrenals stimulate growth. Precisely what hormone causes baldness is unknown. But in man the male sex hormone is definitely the ringleader. Wiry, energetic men are apt to be shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages...
...basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath...
...general, the program of the conference deals with three periods of the child's growth--from two to eight years of age; from eight to 15; and from 15-22. The actual development of the child, physical, mental, and emotional, will be discussed in three sessions, corresponding to the three age groups...
...interviewers Japan's great Christian explained that his causes, labor organization and cooperatives, represent "practical Christianity." Exulted the Christian Century: "It is about as certain as anything can be that as soon as the business forces of the country wake up to what is happening with this growth of church interest in co-operatives they will loose a blast which will make their complaint against Roosevelt's mild economic experimentalism sound like a Schumann-Heink lullaby...