Word: normal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves...
Wired Heads. Persons with broken necks have to keep their heads up so that their fractured vertebrae will grow together in normal alignment. Ordinarily, tight steel collars are used to extend broken necks, but they are uncomfortable, interfere with sleeping, eating, bathing...
...Weights varying from five to 30 lb., according to the amount of tension needed, are attached to the end of the wire or rope, thus pulling the head upward and backward, keeping the vertebrae slightly apart. Patients can move freely in bed, can eat and sleep in normal positions. Installation of the tongs is not at all painful, for the skull is almost completely insensitive...
Physicist Lawrence and his brother, Physician John Hundale Lawrence, soon discovered that neutron rays directed at animals act with much greater force and selectivity than X-rays, are five times more lethal for tumor tissue than X-rays but in tumor-killing doses considerably easier on normal tissue...
...truth about Harvard's amateur football status has finally been revealed, a truth more sordid than any which fancy could have projected. Not content with hiring professional players like any other normal college, she has resorted to illegal methods staggering because of their very insolence...