Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was enough news for a normal week. But President Roosevelt had a far bigger sensation to pull out of his hat before the week was over. Rocking back in his desk chair, his big mole-speckled hands riding the chair arms, pleased at the hot-flash reception of his news, he also let it be known that he would look over Army maneuvers at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the word went north from the White House that there was to be no salute of guns, no bands, no reviewing of troops for the President. All that he wanted...
...Elwood went back to normal, it was plain that what politicians and writers thought of the speech meant less than what was thought of it in the homeward-bound cars that were fanning out over the highways. The talk that counted was the talk that went on behind the golden headlights that danced over the white pavements - the talk of the crowd, of people who were a long way from Washington, a long way from editorial offices, the crowd that rose to a challenge, the crowd that had never heard of the decline of western civilization and would...
Several years ago, Dr. Allen broke down large cancerous tumors in mice, rats and dogs by tying off, for short periods of time, the arteries which fed the tumors with blood and oxygen. For some unknown reason the normal tissues surrounding the tumors were not affected by lack of nourishment...
Four days later Dr. Brennan "burrowed deeply" under the tumor, tied off the arteries again, deprived the tumor of nourishment for three and a quarter hours. Shortly afterward the tumor began to slough off. Normal tissues surrounding the growth, which also had their blood supply cut off, were not injured...
...excess, but in terms of the 1936-39 profit credit itself. Bracket No. 1 calls for a 25% tax on 10% of this credit. Thus, the company which averaged $100,000 from 1936-39, and made $150,000 in 1940, pays 25% on 10% of its $100,000 normal profit. This is 25% of $10,000, or $2,500. Bracket No. 2 takes another clip out of the next 10% of the normal years' profit-this time 30%, or a $3,000 tax. Finally, Bracket No. j takes 40%-the top rate-of anything left of the excess profit...