Word: normal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political physician diagnosing Europe's health would have reported that while the patient still had some fever and complications might easily set in, there was still a 50-50 chance that he would regain normal health. One reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce...
...night last week pretty Mrs. Dorothy Barber of Kansas City grabbed a candy bar, packed up some clothes, and walked to General Hospital. "I want to stay here," she said between bites. "I want to eat all the time. I can finish a normal meal and be back in the kitchen in ten minutes, eating again...
...here. My father and mother spent their lives here"), Harry Hopkins gave his own picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients up to par with his new ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased." National income will not rise without Business confidence, and on this paramount point Mr. Hopkins made an admission never before...
...premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included the right to discharge the wrongdoers...
...feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine but "vague and subjective" feelings of guilt...