Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...significance of the incident was that one important Governmental agency accepted in passim the League's contraceptive activities as normal and acceptable in present U. S. culture...
...being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother, had an inspiration. When Author Connolly's mother returned home late one afternoon last week both her sons were missing, but a note identical with the last written lines of The Marble...
Bull Market. The strong bull cocoa market was somewhat disturbed at a U.S. Department of Commerce estimate of a record-breaking African cocoa crop. Even after this bearish announcement, however, trading continued at twice its normal rate. Commodity markets in general have been exceedingly active. On the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, for instance, a seat last week sold for $31,000, a new peak price. It was thought that Federal Reserve attacks on Wall Street were diverting money to the commodities, though this theory did not well coincide with Wall Street's recently renewed activity...
...have been a part in building so brilliant a weekly of a type which fills so real a place, on lines so solid that its influence will become more and more far-reaching year after year, is, in itself, more than a normal life's work...