Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing but luck or chance entered the situation. There is nothing in the law of averages to prevent him from making ten hits, or 15, or even 20 once in a long while. But if he maintains an average consistently higher than the normal expectancy, the results become significant. Thus, according to Dr. Rhine's mathematics, the odds against making an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 each are ten-thousand-billion-billion-billion-billion to 1. In his complete dossier of 100,000 tries he has longer runs and higher averages than...
...Uses. Normal body temperature is 98.6° F. The body, however, can endure internal temperatures up to 107.5° F. without dying and at that high temperature will positively recover from an attack of gonorrhea; will usually recover from primary or secondary syphilis, especially if drugs containing arsenic are administered during the course of the fever treatment; will frequently recover from tertiary syphilis, including paresis...
...Cincinnati was opened in 1873, largely from a $1,000,000 bequest made to the city some 20 years before by Merchant Charles McMicken. College of the City of New York (City College for men, Hunter for women, co educational Brooklyn College) sprouted from a free academy and a Normal school. Detroit's Wayne University was formed by bundling together five municipal colleges...
Some hospitals, notably State insane asylums, are overcrowded. Of 228 mental hospitals that replied to the committee's inquiry 135 reported excess of patients over normal capacity. In 74 the crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build...
...regarded as marking the end of the long bull market in bonds and the start of an inflationary stage in Recovery, the drop in Governments was followed by the shelving of half a dozen corporate bond offerings and a general tightening of sensitive short-term money rates. By any normal standard money was still ridiculously cheap but the up trend was unmistakable...