Word: normal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments, Harvard's unique research project for "analyzing the forces that produce normal young man," will this year delve deep into the lives of 100 undergraduates, mostly Sophomores, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, announced yesterday...
...Bock pointed out last night that the Study is necessarily limited to a small number of the eligible "normal young men" in the Sophomore class. He and other Study officials, working in collaboration with the Dean's office, have already drawn up a tentative list of the men they wish to study...
...Churchill stated that no British ships had been molested during the last week. This statement is true, if Mr. Churchill does not regard the sinking of a ship as molestation." *A large proportion of Sweden's normal annual 8,000,000 tons of iron ore for Germany comes from the ice-free port of Narvik on the Arctic Ocean and around down the Norway coast. This will be cut off by the British blockade...
This week the announcement came that Commodity Credit Corp. had made an arrangement with British buyers whereby $30-to-$40,000,000 would be given them to proceed with normal purchases. The tobacco would be held in the U. S. and the British would have an option to buy any time before July 1941. The markets then would be reopened on Tuesday...