Word: normalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fertility. Lettuce, cotton seed and whole wheat contain comparatively large quantities of Vitamin E, according to its discoverer, Dr. Herbert McLean Evans of Berkeley, Calif. For lack of Vitamin E otherwise normal female animals, and probably women, cannot have babies. But they regain their fertility immediately after resuming proper meals. Dr. Evans & associates have just proved that this vitamin is a rare alcohol, which they now hope to make artificially...
...procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg's medication is that lead phosphate seems to have greater affinity for cancerous tissues than for normal tissues, accumulates in the cancers in lethal amounts before the general system is fatally poisoned...
...morning Franklin Roosevelt was back at the White House. That evening at the White House he held a formal council of war with the general officers of his legislative army, revealed to them his strategy for ending a Congressional session that after seven months had outlived not only its normal span but its political usefulness...
...words comprised the vocabulary of Carol Lynn Rowe, 20-month-old daughter of a Creston, Iowa dentist. Carol thus knew five times as many words as the average baby of her age. Dr. Wendell Johnson of the University of Iowa accorded her an Intelligence Quotient of 165 (normal: 100), called her a prodigy...
...startling dearth of pork began to make news. The Chicago stockyards last week received less than 50,000 hogs compared to 250,000 to 300,000 hogs a week in recent years. As measured by pork, the living standard of the U. S. was down to a fifth of normal. The price of hogs soared to $12.05 a cwt. exclusive of processing tax-an indication that Mrs. Zuk would soon have more friends, that there would soon be more angry butchers...