Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championships; for the 16th year; with a total of 61½ points to which Negro Bill Watson contributed most individually when he won the discus, shot-put and broad jump and placed third in the high jump; at Columbus, Ohio. Runner-up was Wisconsin with 37 points. Tailender was Northwestern with...
Last week two Midwestern surveys on drinking drivers were issued. Records of two Evanston hospitals showed that of 300 drivers who had been in wrecks causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...
Method of Northwestern's survey was to stop drivers at selected points on the streets, ask them to blow up small balloons. The breath-filled balloon was then tested for alcohol on a "drunkometer" developed by Indiana University Medical School's Dr. R. N. Harger. One driver was willing but too drunk, huffed & puffed on the balloon but could not fill it. Helplessly he turned to his wife and said: "Honey, you finish...
...stop nervous or badly trained children from wetting their beds, a habit which should cease by the age of three, Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease...
Next the fleet steams to the southern drill grounds for target practice. Firing five-inchers, gun crews from Harvard will compete with turret marksmen from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech...