Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That day in San Francisco, just a few hours before the power corporation advertisement was to appear, certain facts developed that demanded changes in it. Normal telegraph instruction to the newspapers that were to carry the advertisement would have been too complicated and slow. It was impossible...
...Crimson skaters the least versatile, but he makes up, in the excellence of his specialty what he lacks in all around ability. His tremendous strength and his great weight, naive him hard to pass, and he possesses sufficient nimbleness to enable him to move quickly from his normal position in front of the cage to the side boards. His dashes down the ice are largely confined to taking the puck to mid-ice for a pass to a cleverer teammate or to a long shot at the opposing net. Clark displays on the ice all the same qualities that make...
...evil may prove its cure. If, as some claim emphasis on scientific and hence materialistic life has been unfortunate for the spiritual state of the modern child, then careful examinations of present conditions and a consequent improved understanding of the case may bring the child back to normal. It may be a question for psychologists alone, or even pathologists--at any rate a diagnosis should help to clear up matters. One hopeful sign is that educators of the calibre of President MacCracken are recognizing the need for action...
...real significance of the election is to be found. Here the off-year anti-Republican trend was most noticeable, the Republicans winning by unusually small pluralities. For example, in Indiana, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson were reelected by some 20,000 votes instead of the normal 100,000 Republican majority. The Democrats have asked for a recount in several counties, but this will probably not change the results...
...time or at least within a week two productions of the same show, even though it is one of Shaw's worst, is now as dead as the dodo, the German war guilt and Ogden Mills. Weren't it for a friend of ours who goes to Vermont State Normal School we'd bet on Radcliffe, that is, knowing the Repertory...