Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picks up the sound waves, transmits them to the signal light thereby shifting the electrical circuit and changing the red light through amber to green, the green light through amber to red. The change lasts for ten seconds, or any time determined by the adjustment, then shifts back to normal. Each arriving motorist toots his horn and gets his ten seconds right-of-way. Such a signal is operating successfully in an outlying district of Baltimore...
Last week this slender, pale and weak young prince was convalescing by almost imperceptible stages, at Madrid, from an operation upon his mouth which would have been negligible in a person of normal health. A pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
Shanghai holds one of the highest places among the ports of the world in normal volume of shipping. Its customs dues are the one large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...
...Dane sire with a noted St. Bernard he found that all the pups of the several litters died within 30 hours, although both bitch and sire were parents of previous prize winners. Autopsies on the litters revealed diseased kidneys throughout; the external sex organs of the male pups seemed normal but the internal sex organs were definitely female in type, showing that the pituitary gland has a profound influence on sex development...
...functioned as well as could be expected. Last fortnight as he stepped from a well-heated house in Ranger, Tex., cold air struck his false eye, caused it to burst into a shower of pieces, pour tiny particles of glass over his face and into his one normal...