Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misses at a ball! At the whole carnival of life! How dreamlike actual existence becomes how real our dreams, if the imagination is allowed to play over them sentimentally! So muses wistful Author Schnitzler. Being a Viennese, either with less than the usual inhibitions or more than the normal interest in sex, Author Schnitzler supplies his characters with chances and dreams of a strictly erotic nature. A doctor's wife, after a ball, confesses to him how very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having an affair with a handsome Pole. The doctor confesses a similar experience...
Prognosticating the prospects for the coming year, in the agricultural world, Secretary Jardine said, "According to the expected crop of all grains, and other agricultural products, the year 1927 promises to be far above normal. Next year, eight per cent more land will be planted in corn than was planted this year, and there will be an increase of six per cent in acreage of land planted in wheat. Also, next year, there will be a decrease of over 6,000,000 acres in land planted with cotton. This will be of benefit to the entire country...
...French poodle next door when he got home, imagining in his afterglow that he had slain Boris. Rennie's afterglow was somewhat marred by the bath to which she was subjected her first day out of confinement. And the changed attitude of the others, back to their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King...
...Later, when she fell in love with a model young man, she knew she had really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there...
...appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions. The late Clifford M. Holland won a mighty memorial by devising a system of four stations, operating 84 huge fans, to send currents of fresh air into the base of the tubes, on each side, through chutes running the length of the tubes with two-inch vents...