Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiments that proved intelligence is affected by environment. Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard, director of the Child Welfare Station in Iowa City, Iowa, reported that: 1) illegitimate children of feeble-minded mothers and laboring fathers, after being placed in good homes, turned out to be bright children; 2) apparently normal youngsters, kept in an overcrowded orphanage, "deteriorated...
...That is, 28 lb. above the normal atmospheric pressure of 14.7 lb. per square inch...
...surface, and the eruption is a self-accelerating physical process. The geyser's tube or pipe fills up with ground water or rain water. At the lower end it is heated by the rock. Because of the pressure of the water column, the temperature rises above the normal boiling point before steam is liberated. Once steam begins to form against the pressure, it raises the column, spilling water on top. This reduces the pressure below so that steam is liberated with fast-increasing rapidity, and so with a rush the geyser erupts. When it is over the tube begins...
...morning, a fire started among the newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with a series of wisecracking banner headlines for his "Fire Editions." The headlines...
...ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...