Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the War, the price of 50? per lb. for rubber was not considered high. It is now about 44? per lb. I think I am correct in stating that the output of rubber from British territory is now 60% normal and not 50% as stated in your issue; also that the production at the end of this month will be increased to 70%. B. P. COULSON...
...fitted with Handley Page slots. He twisted into the worst wind-angle, came almost to a standstill. But here the ailerons (auxiliary wingtips) interconnected with the slots (which provided an auxiliary passage for the air at the front portion of the wing) maintained control until the pilot resumed a normal progress...
Colleges exist for the normal individual, and although they sometimes admit those that are far from normal, they make no provision for any personal eccentricities. They weed out those who are not adjusted to their scale by the very strictness of their rulings. The average student does not realize that there are many men in college who suffer from morbidness and emotionalism of all sorts. They are round pegs in square holes, and the college lifts no finger to aid them...
...Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
With regard to royalty and all news in this line, I have only to ask why a normal interest in personages who head the various European aristocracies should be considered cheap...