Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overtures to this preventive campaign appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Bacteriologist Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University recalled Medicine's halting; progress against infantile paralysis. Serum from the blood of people who suffered from the disease failed to immunize children. Vaccines made from the spines of infected monkeys failed...
...concerned, no connection can be traced between intellectual ability and the size or shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial capacity.* Present average is 1,450 cubic centimetres; but a person may have an interior head size several hundred cc. above or below that figure and still not be abnormal...
...last Friday the 48 office workers of L. L. Coryell & Son in Lincoln, Neb. pulled out their desk drawers, emptied them, packed typewriters, files and work-in-progress into large cardboard boxes on which their names were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside...
Booker T. Washington in Union--Will speak on "Negro Progress." "The Night Riders"--Cast of Dramatic Club's Fall play...
...Progress on Cambridge Subway--Construction nearly completed--Opening probably within the next month...