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Main reliance of the Davis-Gibbs work is the recently recognized fact that the brain pulsates. When it does so it produces a faint electric current which can be detected and registered on a chart by means of electrodes applied to ear and skull...
...brain of a normal person, relaxed and with eyes closed, beats eight to 20 times a second and produces ten to 50 millionths of a volt on each beat. On a chart those beats show up as a fast succession of small waves...
...cannot chart politics. You cannot sit down and draw some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...
Less than four years ago advertising first appeared in the Sunday funny papers. The new business immediately turned out to be a lusty bratling; how lusty, few guessed until last week when Editor & Publisher published a clinical chart. In its first year (1931) all funny-paper advertising in the U. S. put only $361,400 into publishers' pockets. Next year the total went to $3,000,000. Last year...
...shoveled out sand, the holes filled up with water. With knives they groped blindly in the puddles, taking out segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into...