Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students in teacher training schools . . . are substantially lower than comparable liberal arts students in the scores which they secure in nearly all tests . . . of intelligence, mathematics, foreign languages, natural science, social science. . . . No student should be admitted to professional educational classes who is at entrance to college below the present average of liberal arts college freshmen. Since this would exclude at least 60% of pupils now in teacher training institutions over the country, it represents an ideal rather than opinion. . . . Many of these students are literate only in the legal sense of the word...
...Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
...have recently undergone a major operation. A blood clot (thrombus) breaks loose from its anchorage, floats with the blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...
...handle the affected artery at the site of the plugging. Above and below the embolus he applies soft rubber-covered clamps to the artery. Over the embolus "a longitudinal incision, 0.5 to 1 cm. long, is made. The mass is expressed by the fingers without difficulty and the lower clamp is removed to allow return bleeding to flush the distal [away from the heart] segment and similarly the proximal [toward the heart] segment is flushed and the clamp reapplied. With fine oiled silk suture on arterial needles, the incision is closed, and the clamps are removed. ... If successful, the color...
...than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production. Production of both butter and eggs touches bottom in November and December, then rises to a spring peak, eggs in May, butter in June, when pastures are usually greenest. Consequently butter prices are generally lower in summer than in winter. But in the past eight weeks butter has gone up, not down, faster than at any time since the post-War inflation when butter sold wholesale at 60? per lb. At last week's quotation of 33#&162; per lb. butter was about...