Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor when traced through to the source of the materials. The Department of Labor says each man on contract construction under the commendable Ickes' WPA program meant 3½ men working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...
...Caucus Room darkened just before luncheon, showed the Paramount newsreel to a crowd of 700, including delegations of Senators and Congressmen. The audience was on the edge of its chairs. First the entire film was shown. On the second showing the first few scenes were run off at normal speed, the rest of the action at half speed with occasional stops to let the worst shots sink...
...shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial capacity.* Present average is 1,450 cubic centimetres; but a person may have an interior head size several hundred cc. above or below that figure and still not be abnormal...
...Skulls deformed by giantism, hydrocephaly, microcephaly, etc. are of course not in the normal range...
...Walter Sydney Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory had a good chance to finesse this difficulty. Mars was then approaching Earth at about 13 mi. per second. When a source of light is approaching the observer, the spectrum lines are shifted to the right of their normal position. Thus Martian vapor lines would have been separated from those of Earth. The astronomers armed the 100-in. telescope with a 9-ft. spectral grating, but no Martian vapor lines showed up. They concluded that the planet's atmosphere is very nearly bone...