Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...
Basins. A sort of dry-reservoir idea is proposed in a system of basins-stretches of lowlands bordering the river and surrounded by levees. These basins would be dry land in normal times, at flood period an opening would be made in the levees and the basin flooded, thus taking up some of the overflow. These basins could be owned by the Government and rented out for private farming with the understanding that they would have to be inundated in flood time...
...influence they have in educational experimentation all be taken into account, the fortunes of education in America are inextricably bound up with their methods. Three factors continues Mr. James, are stripping them of their cultural character. The transference, in some places, of the last two years of the normal four year course to graduate work, leaves only two years for more general study. The attempts of professional departments to see that students entering their courses have had proper previous training lead to pre-medical and pre-engineering courses and deprive even the first two years of college of their cultural...
These statements by the U. S. Minister were so different from what the normal Englishman likes to believe, that some few London papers came out in a healthy pox and said that, as everyone knows, Great Britain does what she does in Egypt to protect the main artery of her commerce, the Suez Canal, and will continue to do so indefinitely...
Members of the American Otological Society, at their sixth annual convention in Manhattan last week, gave close examination to a machine that may make briefer the ten years now usually required to teach a person hard of hearing* to talk properly. The hard of hearing can easily imitate a normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...