Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to Singer Lawrence Tibbett, Flyer James Harold Doolittle is the most famed member of the Class of 1914 at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School. In 1922 he became the first man to cross the U. S. in less than 24 hours. In 1931 he became the first to do it in less than twelve. Last week American Airlines invited him to pilot one of its eight-passenger single-motored Vultees on a non-stop coast-to-coast...
...Moscow last week the State bread stores' price to people with cards was 48 kopeks per kilo of black bread, one ruble for white. At this price Great Aristocrats (manual workers and Soviet officials) could buy 800 grams of bread per day, Small Aristocrats (white collar and professional folk) 400 grams. People without cards, such as loafers or priests, or Russians who had exhausted their card quota, paid last week in Moscow two rubles per kilo of black bread, three and a half rubles for white?or roughly four times the card prices. Often, especially outside Moscow, the cardless have...
...basis of these tests Dr. Rhine has concluded: "The ability to exercise clairvoyant and telepathic perception has been fairly well shown to be a natural capacity of the human species." He finds that, like manual dexterity, this ability increases with practice, is diminished by illness, fatigue, drowsiness, narcotic drugs. He finds that most persons have the ability in some degree, that at least one person in four has it in marked degree...
Asked whether the new system will cause the discharge of all the former manual telephone operators, the manager of the company replied that such is not the case. Foreseeing the change to the dial system in Cambridge, the company long ago began gradually to transfer the regular full-time operators to other positions in other districts. As a result, the staff of manual telephone operators came in time to consist completely of part-time workers...
...alphabet method of learning to read by spelling out the words orally. This, Dr. Dearborn says, at least guaranteed the right direction of eye movements and their correlation with a sequence of letter sounds. For older children, typewriting has been utilized. This has the merit of being a bi-manual activity, and is thus suited to the ambi-dextrous...