Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very much like a string of trylons and perispheres...
About ten years ago the U. S. and Britain divided the Atlantic's weather reporting between them; storms east of 35° longitude (even with the eastern edge of Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...
...pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
...Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...
...placed. Chief worry of the industry right now is how to keep the operating rate (last week: 87.5%, this week 88.6%; buying by consumers took up about 70%) above 85% of nominal capacity without dangerously deferring repairs, cracking up expensive new machinery, running shaky old machinery into the ground. Even small marginal companies like Tycoon J. H. Hillman Jr.'s Pittsburgh Steel Co. were defying the rule of producing with 85% of capacity and rotating 15% under repair, were actually smelting ingots at better than 100% of nominal capacity. Bethlehem's battery of 30 old and new furnaces...