Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were sane and dull people, these Washingtons, and excessively normal. Men of this type, in all ages of history, have presented an opaque surface to the fresh thought of their time. They are conservative by instinct. But their vitality .is tough and deeply rooted, and their stolidity is antiseptic. They are immune to the fructifying quality of genius...
...Chinese Red Cross proceeded speedily to bury 3,000 citizens of Wuchang who died of starvation during the siege. Contrary to rumor, the foreign population was found to have suffered no war casualties or deaths by starvation. Within the week Wuchang pulsed once more with normal industry, dozed behind its ancient walls...
...water if Mr. Houdini's life is endangered. After an endless wait for the audience, out comes Mr. Houdini, dripping but quite free. Like about 50% of Mr. Houdini's vaudeville program, the solution of the "Chinese water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made of wooden halves fitting into an iron frame with a flange in it to keep them from slipping through. No man could pull the blocks downward through this frame, but only a slight push upward by a man suspended from it would free the wooden...
Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...
...results of the Second team game with Bridgewater Normal School on Soldiers Field were more encouraging...