Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrofula, in the middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk...
...nadir of cold called Absolute Zero exists not as a reality of nature but as a textbook definition, as a goal which haunts the minds of low-temperature researchers and which they do not expect to attain. Cold is the absence of heat. Heat is molecular activity. Thus Absolute Zero is the point at which the molecules that compose matter would lie like heaps of corpses in rigid juxtaposition. Physicists locate Absolute Zero at -273.13° Centigrade...
...EVERY HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS CLASS AND TEACHER I WOULD RECOMMEND TIMES SCIENCE COLUMN OF NOVEMBER 19 ISSUE STOP SUCH REASONABLE THESES OF TODAY BECOME TEXTBOOK FACTS OF TOMORROW...
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Reading should be chosen from as many texts as possible, so that one may receive many viewpoints on the subject. It is usually desirable that only part of the week's work be given in the course textbook while different points of view and those parts of the subject which are better treated in other books should be assigned for the other part of the work. Confidence is inspired in the student if he can recognize the volume as the work of an authority and to that end the lecturer might tell a little about each author...