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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A 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...
...competition is the last chance for Sophomores to compete for both Boards; accordingly, the editors of the CRIMSON issue a cordial invitation to any men who thrill to the sight of a big press churning out newsprint, to those who might grow to love the smell of printer's ink, to come to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening and see what's what
...Swing will die within the next six months," said Paul Whiteman in 1934. Since then, not only has it made the phonograph record industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...
...investors had got the scare out of their systems before the first bomb was dropped by Hitler's airmen on the Vistula bridges. Before the ink was dry on the first war extras, the stockmarket zoomed. One day's listless market (457,890 shares) became peacetime financial history. The next morning as the Germans entered Poland, 1,970,000 shares (1939's daily average 720,072 shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World...
...Turkey, oldtime friend of the Soviet Union with which it shares the Black Sea, news of the German-Russian Pact was almost as serious a shock as it was to Germany's friend Japan. It came just as the ink was drying on a French-Turkish trade pact. It also brought on what was later described as "extraordinary pressure" from Germany. Von Papen was given an hour in which to perform his suave, bully act, then President Inönü made clear to France and Britain that he stood with them in the great lineup. Turkey, said...