Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train slowed up for the Charles River Station I pressed him again. "It it too Earle to say whether the Democrate are leading with their Quinn? From the Caulfields of the East to the open Miles of the West they are having a Trft fight. Farley is said to have cried 'O' Hara' when they brought him the Tydings...
Five years ago the station's staff began to pay particularly close attention to illegitimate infants whom it placed in foster homes. Average I. Q. of these 275 children's mothers was 87, and their fathers were mostly unskilled laborers with little education. The parents were rated "poor stock" by every standard...
...socially impoverished. Their I. Q.s fell. Crowning study was one conducted in an orphanage where some children were given nursery-school training several hours a day. The school children gained in intelligence while their comrades who did not go to school lost and some became feeble minded. The station's researches show that young children's gains in intelligence tend to be permanent...
Moonfaced, enthusiastic Dr. Stoddard, 41-year-old father of four, is director of Iowa's history-making Child Welfare Research Station and its 60 psychologists. At the conference last week, conducted by famed Ben D. Wood's Educational Records Bureau and several other groups, Dr. Stoddard reported not only his facts but his conclusions about how intelligence is created...
...four months physicists of the National Bureau of Standards at Washington have been sending clusters of small sounding balloons to great heights in the upper air. Purpose: cosmic ray research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This was believed...