Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Taxes. The chief provisions of the Administration plan call for reduction of surtaxes to a minimum of 20%, abolition sooner or later of the Federal inheritance tax, reductions in the normal taxes to benefit small tax payers...
...permits herself to handle only a few significant ones and those thoughtfully, accurately. A facile psychologist, she ferrets out the secrets of human action in near-at-home areas of the spiritual plane rather than in those physiological resorts whose vogue seems to increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor's House has been declared "unsubstantial" beside One of Ours and A Lost Lady. Perhaps, but as a metaphor for that imperceptible reversal of adolescence that comes over all men, which they call middle-age and which is tragic or not, according as their lives have been...
...which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from the introduction to the Guide in the CRIMSON of September 28: "Each opinion printed is the honest reaction of an individual of normal intelligence to a particular subject and its manner of presentation. It pretends to nothing else." The general favorable reaction to the Guide among the undergraduates in the College is, after all, the CRIMSON's best justification for its "innovation in undergraduate journalism...
...most numerous of all the health defects of childhood. In the great majority of the schools, both rural and urban, of this proud and prosperous nation, from 50 to 98% of the children have defective teeth?health defects which are actually or potentially dangerous and detrimental to health, normal development, and to sound education. The correction of the dental defects of the youth of America is the largest problem in the entire range of correction of remediable physical health handicaps...
...these were effected, such popular caricatures as the goggle-eyed Phi Beta Kappa man on the one extreme and the ox-like tramp-athlete on the other would disappear from the Yard, and there would remain to pursue their fullest development those who hold to the Greek ideal--the normal, healthy, intelligent students...