Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Germany, already arming most of the Balkan countries, offered potential enemy Yugoslavia a 200,000,000-mark credit to be applied on armament purchases over a ten-year period...
...been the scientific progress of medicine that a great number of physicians are practicing "horse and buggy" medicine according to the rules of the past generation at the expense of "the defenceless sick." Dr. Bernheim's remedy: medical licenses should be granted not for life but for periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find it fatal to neglect postgraduate study...
...around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later, seven of them were adopted. During the same period, twelve of the normal children who remained in the crowded asylum, and received no affection, slowly drifted into feeblemindedness...
...solution of the tutoring problem may life in the offering of a general review by every instructor in a course at the end of each term. These reviews should be highly beneficial in coordinating the work of the period just completed and would go far towards remov- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves
...Japanese 1938 crop (July 1-June 30, 1939) was 12½% under that of the year before. Meanwhile in the U. S. a ribbon fad and hosiery boom boosted silk consumption 13% in the ten months ended May 1, 1939 over the same period a year earlier...