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For months Mrs. Julie Neumann, director of Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School, had been bursting with a great secret. Last fortnight when she read of "K," the prodigy with an I. Q. of 196 discovered by the College of the City of New York (TIME, Dec. 3), she could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Bunny | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Head Sounds | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

†By learning to use his left hand, right-handed stuttering David St. Clair of the University of Oklahoma got rid of his impediment, won a 1932 Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholars must be, apart from brilliant scholarship and civilized deportment, fluent talkers. At the University of Iowa Professor Lee Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Left-Handed Twins | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Leslie Martin Bell 2M, of Dozier, Alabama; Robert Lee Brown 4M, of Rochester, New York; Norman Hull Bruce 3M, of Brighton; Oliver Cope 2M, of Boston; Albert Wallace Cowan 2M, of Bristol, Tennessee; Edmund John Croce 2M, of Worcester; Robert Croly Darling 3M, of New York City; William Finkelstein 3M...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 MEN ARE GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEDICAL SCHOOL | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

Vidal, the Army quarterback, made a touchdown in the first three minutes of the first period after a brilliant run of 70 yards. Travis Brown scored a point for the Army on the kick. Making the score 7 to 0.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEST POINT 46, HARVARD 0 | 11/5/1932 | See Source »

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