Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress and are binding, even mandatory upon the Treasury. The essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that "Irigoyen's Whim" would not become "Irigoyen's Folly...
...business. Example: R. H. Macy's, Manhattan department store, is a private bank because it accepts deposits, pays interest, is in the banking business, but it is primarily a department store and its depositors are its customers. Neither private banks nor private bankers affect the stability of the standard, normal, supervised, incorporated savings banks and trust companies which constitute the type of bank which the public recognizes as such and in which the public has many a safeguard for its money...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...
...most important observation that Drs. Boas and Weiss made is that the heart rate of an individual during sleep is an index of the speed at which his heart must beat to meet his physiological needs. In sleep he is least disturbed by thoughts or outside influences. Sleeping normal heart rates ranged roughly from 40 to 55 beats a minute for males, 50 to 65 beats for females, whereas the generally accepted "normal" rate for males is 62, for females...
...bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...