Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Next thought was: why did the moles and not the mice develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
...Compiling the first 275 statements issued, National City Bank compared the total first-half earnings with the same period last year, found a 24% drop, compared second-quarter figures with the same period in 1928, found the decline was only 3%. Interpretation: the decline in business, compared to a normal year, is not serious. Equally bullish was the statement issued by U. S. Steel's finance committee: "At this date, the manufacturing plants are operating at about 63% of capacity. Indications . . . point to an increase in this rate . . . during the balance of this quarter with an improvement in volume...
...They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more honest...
...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...
...Chaney's mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...