Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson of Philadelphia's late great nonogenarian Dr. William Williams Keen, practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence...
...first time since they all recently caught light snuffle colds, Yvonne, Cecile, Annette, Emilie and Marie all ran normal temperatures last week, were aired together in their five perambulators, guarded by a pistol-on-hip policeman...
Swollen Brains & Epilepsy. The behavior of a high-frequency electric current shot through the head of an epileptic differs from the same current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
...friend of the Royal Family, M. Andrew Tocheff, seasoned Bulgar diplomat. When he failed to win support for a Cabinet after three days, the Tsar made him Premier anyhow by decree. "This will be a transitory Cabinet," said Royalty's old Premier, "to facilitate a return to normal political conditions...
...Long-headed grocers, cramming their shelves against a rise in food prices, helped General Foods make $3,680,000 in the March quarter last year. With buying "more nearly normal" in the first three months of this year. General Foods' profits were down to $3,361,000. C. Edward J. Cornish, dour president of National Lead Co., told his stockholders last week that March quarter business was the best for that period since 1930. President Cornish declared that he could easily raise prices but that he preferred not to "squeeze" consumers. Profits from European operations were currently better than...