Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sinking party differences, the Austrian Assembly passed unanimously a normal budget for the current financial year...
...Alfred Zimmerman, Commissioner General of Austrian Finances for the League, said that in 1922 it was not thought that Austria could have a normal budget before 1925, but that conditions were now much changed and the permanent revenue considerably increased; he thought, therefore, that higher expenditure was to some extent justifiable...
...particular interest to the public was the report of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals. It was pointed out that the number of medical schools in the U. S. now represents a normal supply, and is sufficient to meet easily the demands for physicians in the U. S. Eighty per cent of the schools are integral parts of universities. The number of students enrolled during the past year was 17,808, the largest number since 1912, when the higher entrance requirements went into effect generally. The medical schools are still not filled to their maximum capacity. At present there...
...Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over the world about 4½ degrees F. If this heat loss should become only twice as great, it is estimated that the permanent polar ice cap would descend over...
...rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve in the sky. But it is a wise precaution to have the safety belt well buckled when flying upside down, for plane and pilot may suddenly part company. To perform a series of loops, when the trick...