Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deaf person can watch the fluctuations of his voice indicated by the pointer of the instrument which registers the impulses immediately. Frequencies from zero to 16,000 cycles per second can be recorded, while the range of the human ear is from 20 cycles up to a high squeak of about 16,000 cycles per second...
Here (pointing to p. 23 of the decision) the Court quotes an old opinion which says building construction is "as essentially local as mining, manufacturing, or growing crops." There are five major human activities and four of them are listed here as not being part of interstate commerce. The fifth is transportation. Construction must have been considered local (the President grew ironical) because a house is built only on one spot although its materials come from everywhere. No matter where coal, oil or copper may be shipped the Court implies that their production is not interstate commerce. If I started...
...Chicago largely what they are today; who, with Dr. George Henry Simmons, editor and general manager-emeritus of the A. M. A., made the A. M. A. a great, potent organization; who, most of all, promulgated the doctrine of focal infection. More than any other physician, he traced human ailments to their remote and often obscure causes. definitely establishing that infected tonsils may cause blood poisoning, that gonorrhea may produce rheumatism, that a bad tooth may result in heart disease...
...Germany will sign non-aggression treaties with all her neighbors except Lithuania (from whom she is now trying to wrest the city of Memel) because Germany cannot enter into political treaties with a State which disregards the most primitive laws of human society...
...world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed of a human runner. The expectation of Ohio State's Coach Laurence Snyder that his most famed protégé will break it by 3-sec. is based on the fact that, with a running start, Owens has covered the distance in 8.4. Traveling at full speed, he averages 35.71 ft. per sec. His current performances are impaired...