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Word: norm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were tested on such basic skills as reading and arithmetic. Except for an unexplained lag in second grade, the students scored well above the national averages. Similarly, seniors in 41 Catholic high schools did better, as a group, in language, social studies, math and science than the national norm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parochial Schools: A Report Card from Notre Dame | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...NORM JONES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 29, 1966 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...where the middle starts, medical theory is very sketchy, and any age grouping is arbitrary, more of a social and psychological norm than a physiological fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...college crew in the nation needed any further substantiation, it got plenty on New York's Onondaga Lake last week, where Wisconsin, which previously had lost to Navy, which had lost to Princeton, which had lost to Yale, won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship. Badger Coach Norm Sonju naturally had a different view: spring, he pointed out, is always a little late in Wisconsin. "We don't get out on the water until April," Sonju said, "but we always get up for this race." Way up. Trailing Navy, Brown and Princeton at various times during the 3-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rowing: Yes, That Good | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

While rejecting the appellants' contention that Mrs. Davis' "conduct is today's norm," Associate Justice Otto Kaus declared that even today's "family magazines, which no one would think of hiding from the children, have for years played peekaboo with the female breast." In such a society, reasoned Kaus, the court cannot rationally rule "that a woman who exposes her bust for a brief period, without suggestive movements, before a limited group of adults of both sexes, outrages public decency by any and all definitions of that term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Steady as She Goes | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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