Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din and disorder. Representative Sam Hill of Washington hurrying to his House duties slipped on icy pavement, rammed a pipestem through the roof of his mouth, severed an artery...
...justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached. The conclusions of Columbia's psychophysical experts, published in a sophisticated pamphlet, will decide forever the question--Is Java harmful...
Author Hamsun and Publisher Knopf have produced some 15 Hamsun novels in the U. S. Chapter The Last is laid in the Torahus Sanatorium. There is The Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters...
...Stillman Infirmary after an operation for a ruptured spleen. Dr. Richards reported Harding's condition as satisfactory though he said it would be several days before the boy was "out of the woods." At a late hour last night he was reported as resting comfortably with pulse normal and temperature only slightly high...
...soccer team Saturday completed one of its most successful seasons. Victories over Worcester Polytechnic 3 to 0; Syracuse, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 2 to 0; Northeastern, 5 to 1; Brown, 4 to 0; and Yale, 2 to 1 were registered; the team was tied by the Navy and M. I. T., both 1 to 1; and it lost games to Amherst, 4 to 2; and to Pennsylvania...