Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connected with each electric chronometer is a regular clock with an automatic adjuster. If the current should be shut off and the telechron fall behind, it is not reset in the ordinary manner, but the automatic adjuster makes it function at twice its normal speed until it has caught up with the regular clock...
...Thanksgiving Day turkey soared to 75? per lb:, 30? above normal. Cities like Nome, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, which lay in a winter's stores in advance, were unworried. But Cordova was rationing condensed milk, six cans to a customer...
...Reunion they are incidental. Chaperoned by their amiable nurse (Dorothy Peterson), for eight of the picture's 80 minutes they waddle about with normal two-year-old awkwardness and silence, blowing horns, tumbling over cribs, pounding a piano, guzzling milk and sucking thumbs in the familiar quinsome way. For the rest of the show they might just as well not have been born...
...firmly bound at the tail bones by a link of muscle, fibre and intestine. Simplicio's digestive tract ended in a blind pocket of gut about half an inch short of where it should have ended. He drained through the connecting link into his Brother Lucio's normal colon...
Except for the linkage of their bowels, the twins were normal entities. They differed slightly in size, considerably in temperament. Lucio, the smaller, was impetuous, the leader. He usually walked forward, while bigger, more phlegmatic Simplicio trailed backward. Simplicio habitually slept on his right side, Lucio on his left. Thus Lucio's heart had more work to do at night than Simplicio's, a fact which may have contributed to their differences, for being identical twins, product of the same ovum, they should have been mirror images of each other...