Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basketball squad gets down to business this afternoon when formal practice takes the place of the informal workouts, which have been none too well attended. Attendance of any sort, however, during the week of the Yale football game is not normal. Nothing could initiate the opening of the new minor sport with better taste than the glorious victory at New Haven...
Back in 1914, the outbreak of the World War brought a flood of war orders that increased our normal demand tremendously. Prices rose. When we went in three years later, it not only multiplied demand once more but it took some four million men out of productive industry. Prices climbed rapidly. When the war was won everybody felt that we would revert back to the "good old days." Instead of going to work to make up the shortage of goods, however, we experienced a general let-down in industry. Labor went on a vacation. Supply dwindled. At the same time...
...Union. The competition will last until the Christmas recess, about six weeks, and is open to Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors. There is an unusual opportunity to make the Register this year as the Board, which was greatly depleted during the war, has not been brought up to its normal size, and all men who show their worth will be elected...
Secondly, the cry which has reached you comes very largely from the newspapers. This is purely a selfish cry resulting from the fact that the vast majority of newspapers call upon writers who are only partly qualified to handle the subject. They are men whose normal field is baseball, boxing, golf, or some other un-allied subject. The newspapers seem unwilling to bear the expense of securing expert writers and sending them to various preliminary games which will qualify them to write an accurate account of the proceedings in a big game. I see no reason why anyone should cater...
...functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal fluctuations characteristic of every industry are carefully eliminated; while allowance is made for other causes which have no part in the normal course of the business cycle. The various series which appear to have most in common in the character and time of their fluctuations are then grouped together. They naturally divide themselves into three groups of which one, that covering the activities of speculation in securities, predicts the movements of the others...