Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...size and source of the personal wealth of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic Boss of New Jersey, has long been one of the State's chief political mysteries. Suspicion that the size was large and the source illicit cut his normal 7-to-1 majority down to 3-to-2 when he was re-elected last year (TIME, May 27, 1929). Two Republican legislative committees had cited him for contempt when he refused all information on his financial affairs. Cleared of contempt by the courts, he sailed for Europe (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929), returned...
...straightaway that usually is marked by its greatest speed. Last week economists, statisticians, chart readers anxiously awaited the first indication of what business will do after this year's turn. It will probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored "bull market after Labor Day," the market began steadying last fortnight, crept higher last week. Brokers, as usual...
...Normal is based on the average for the past ten years, with 4 per cent being added each year to take care of normal growth...
...have struck each & every place in the U. S., the U. S. lightning rod industry continues. According to Department of Commerce figures issued last week, lightning rod business was $923,000 in 1928, $1,232,000 in 1929. Sales at present are running slightly ahead of normal. Thus the lightning rod industry must be added to those very select trades which are depression proof...
...results of his experiment. The Elektrenkephalogramm, as Professor Berger called the galvanometer record, showed plainly that the brain produced electricity. Comparison of figures seemed to indicate that electric current decreases as mental activity increases. Dr. Berger distinguished two types of waves, alpha and beta. The alpha waves represented the normal electricity output of an organism when not highly stimulated. The current generated was .2 microvolt. Beta waves represented the brain's electricity production when the subject was stroked by the glass rod, told to figure out an arithmetic problem. The galvanometer at this time registered .1 microvolt...