Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keith MacKane, researching profoundly as is the wont of inmates of Columbia University's Teachers College, tested and compared the intelligence of 130 deaf and 130 normal children in New York City schools. Last week he announced: "There is ... a superiority of the hearing children over the deaf...
...such clairvoyance. Cutting must be done with such consummate skill that no unnecessary or vital structure be injured. The layman thinks of an operation as purely a wielding of the knife. The surgeon actually does much more in hemostasis, in clean removal of pathological conditions, in the restoration of normal relations, in the sewing of tissues, and the closure of wounds. This is itself an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, even to the tying of the last stitch." With the foregoing apostrophe to Surgery, which he has served for 40 years. Professor William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University last week...
...index" is a measure of the ability of a person's heart to endure an operation. To compute the energy index, add the blood pressure while the heart is contracted to the blood pressure while the heart is dilated, and multiply the sum by the pulse rate. A normal person, said Dr. W. Stanley Sykes of Leeds, England, has an energy index of 14,400 millimetres of mercury per minute, or the ability to lift that much mercury by the force of the heart action. If the figure runs up to 45,000 or 50,000, as is possible...
...chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only 500 ft. above the ground. Then he yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with my parachute [in a forest] and walked back to the airfield where they greeted me with shouts of delight because they thought I was dead." Evceyef's record beat the previous mark, held by an Englishman, by more than a mile. The jolt suffered by Jumper Evceyef...
...show a range of from $1000 to $10,000, with an average salary of approximately $2200. Further figures show that a total of 161 calls were received for teachers, while only 102 men received degrees from the school. Of these 161 calls, five were for presidents in colleges and normal schools; 19 were for teachers in college and normal school subjects; 16 were for principals or superintendents of schools; 45 were for teachers in public high schools; and the remainder included requests for elementary school administrators, psychologists, supervisors, and social workers...