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Word: normale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers attach their stockings with thumbtacks, but manufacturers frown on this, recommend normal garters attached by screws, as is necessary with aluminum legs. Artificial legs have two advantages, according to Manufacturer Joe Spievak who retired as president of the limb makers last week: your feet do not perspire and you do not have to change socks often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Peg Legs | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...change, and it has become almost commonplace to bestow the credit where it belongs without any regard for the intensely hard fight the coaches have had these few years. Lest anyone think complacently about Harvard's success on the gridiron this year as something bound to come in the normal course of events, let him remember the spirit that prevailed at Soldiers Field three short years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING INTO ITS OWN | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...urine, isolated it in pure form. This is called Auxin A. In 1934 the Utrecht researchers followed with Auxin B and heteroauxin. Heteroauxin has the astonishing effect of making roots sprout from the stem in shaggy masses like beards. It also produces elongation and swelling in stems, stimulates normal root formation, inhibits buds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Hormones | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...places where U. S. businessmen habitually swap horseback opinions on the State of the Union, prime topic last week was the timeless question-How is Business? But it was not put in the usual form of a casual greeting. Not only had business failed to develop a normal autumn spurt: it was definitely on the down grade. The New York Times weekly business index has dropped steadily from above in. its Recovery high registered in the middle of August, to less than 105, lowest since last February. Everyone had heard disturbing tales of layoffs, close downs, price cuts, sudden cancelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cloudy, Possible Showers | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...proved that when you drive at night, because you are more tired, your reactions are slower. And when you add that to a couple of drinks, even if only beer, a driver will take up to three and four times as long to respond to an emergency as under normal driving conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLASH! HARVARD MAN HURT | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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