Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlson conclusion: "Modern civilization seems to be breeding a race which lacks the normal hunger mechanism...
Irregularities in the earth, such as masses of rock of lower or higher density than the surrounding material, or of higher or lower electrical conductivity influence the natural physical fields of the earth or artificial physical fields that can be found on the ground in question. The normal fields can be calculated accurately, and by measuring the departures from the normal, evidence is secured that is of possible service in estimating the properties of the mass concealed in the earth that is responsible for the departures...
...regime than France. The force of example was so strong, however, that in almost all countries of Europe the power of the absolute monarchy was broken and constitutional systems were instituted before 1914. Two of the most notable examples were Russia and Turkey. It is quite conceivable that under normal circumstances the new systems might have evolved satisfactorily in time, as the country in question developed economically and socially. But the world war proved too great a strain. Even the more advanced countries found the existing system unsatisfactory and introduced war governments, which smacked strongly of dictatorships. In the less...
...Hugh S. Cumming's duty. He turned a squad of his Public Health Service to analyze the relation of goiter and communicable disease. They examined several thousand boys & girls before & after they had measles, chicken pox, and like illnesses; those who had never been sick; those who had normal and enlarged thyroids...
...normal venom kills with more or less speed. Cleopatra and Charmian dying within a few moments of their asp bites was no Shakespearean fairytale. The quietness of their death, however, was. Venom attacks the nerves as well as muscles. It causes profuse bleeding...