Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many people pronounced it "loghead." The company has produced many first-class planes, has had its share of first-class bad luck. After the Northwest Airlines crash in January-when part of the H-shaped tail "fluttered" off a 14-it grounded the model. The fault was corrected by static balances within ten days. About 27 Lockheed 145 have been operating safely ever since...
...Thirteen other U. S. broadcasting stations telecast periodically. These experimentations are chiefly technical. The material telecast includes static charts, films, occasional live programs...
Jagged descending lines on some charts tended to level off, or even rise, last week. Barren's business index for the second week in succession stood at 53.7% of normal. Steel production was virtually static at 30% of capacity; lumber-up from 166,926,000 board feet fortnight ago to 179,322,000 last week; automobiles - down from 53,385 units fortnight...
...seemed last week that U. S. business was at a crossroads. With minor fluctuations, indices remained static at about the same level as the last four or five weeks. Economists wondered whether this was the basement of the Roosevelt Recession or only a landing on the escalator to ruin. As the President's inflationary plans for reviving business gave stocks and commodities a brisk rally, there were champions for both sides of the question...
Harvard has always been a target for those opponents of static scholarship, who deplore the tendency of our older Universities to bury themselves in a ceaseless effort to cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...