Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest fire damage ever suffered by any country in any year. Small comfort was drawn from the results of Fire Prevention Week of October, 1926, when 400 fire chiefs of leading cities reported losses of only $400,848 as compared with a weekly normal for their territory of more than $1,200,000. The underwriters said that people can be careful to avoid fires if stirred to do it, but they are simply not careful when left to their own routine of negligence...
...First Act. Nina, normal New England girl, loves Gordon, college hero, honest, compelling, gladiatorial. Her father, jealous of her love, persuades her to postpone marriage. Gordon goes to war, dies in a flaming airplane...
...This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...
...meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers at Detroit, C. Francis Jenkins of Washington displayed his "chronoteine [time stretching] camera." It consists of a 13-in. disc holding on its periphery 48 lenses. As the lenses revolve a photographic film moves back of the disc. Normal exposures are 3,200 a second, possible exposures 10,000 a second. (The ordinary cinema camera takes 16 views a second.) Utility: Resolving for leisurely observation the details of swift moving machinery, gun fire, water flow...
...purpose, and with the provision of Freshman Halls, we are paying far more personal attention to the Freshmen than ever before, and are constantly doing so to a larger extent, with the result that parents need not worry about sending their sons at 17. For the boys of normal maturity to come at that age and graduate at 21 would be better for the whole body of students