Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last cen-tury a few really scientific minds have begun to observe certain regularities both in astronomy and economics. We are familiar with the course of the "Business Cycle," as described by Prof. Wesley Clair Mitchell and others, through inflation, crisis, depression, recovery. Its major catastrophes show a somewhat irregular recurrence, but if we analyze wholesale prices, both of manufactured goods and raw materials, we find a fairly regular cycle of about eight years between peaks. It is all argued with incomparable logic in Generating Economic Cycles-by Dr. Henry Ludwell Moors, Research Professor of Political Economy at Columbia...
...this, and there are probably about a dozen of them who can best Siki in any kind of a bout. It is a bit unjust, if one comes to think it over, but the crowds will go to see Siki whenever he fights simply because his habits are decidedly irregular and eccentric...
...irregular stock market showed tendencies after Thanksgiving of turning dull. But the attention of the business community has for the time being abandoned Wall Street and other financial or trade centers, and has concentrated on the gathering of the new Congress in Washington...
...Berkeley, Calif., Dr. Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...
...previous years the Arena has been open to the public for the better part of every afternoon. As a result, the University hockey teams were forced to practice in the Arena late in the afternoon on poor ice and at irregular hours, while the second team and the Freshman team were forced to rely on the uncertain natural ice of the Charlesbank rinks...