Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the time is not altered, all Frenchmen will be expected to go to work half an hour earlier and quit at 30 minutes before the normal hour. For example, a law-abiding Frenchman will get up at 7 o'clock instead of 7:30; arrive at his business at 8:30 instead of 9; lunch at 11:30 instead of 12; start his afternoon's work at 2:30 instead of 3; dine at 7:30 and not at 8; and go to bed half an hour before his accustomed time. Moreover all public services will conform...
...names as Palestrina, Pergolesi, Archangelsky. The director is Father Finn, choirmaster of New York's great church of the Paulist order. He is a fine, genial fellow, a learned musician and, one guesses, a lively hand with a pair of boxing gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces...
...would seem that Europe was assured of another great American invasion. With the large number that go in a normal year, and the opportunity opened to many more by such inexpensive and congenial methods as the Student Tours, the temptation is great. College men will be everywhere; on the boulevards at the cafes, at the theatres, at the Louvre, the National Galleries, or the Pitti Palace, struggling with art, being rounded out. During the summer they will become conscious of a speaking acquaintance with the cathedrals and paintings they have seen. But they are less likely to have a speaking...
...percentage of impurities in virtually all new mined coal going to market, charges the American, runs from 25 to 40%. The normal rate of impurities allowed by decent trade custom and considered unavoidable when coal is honestly prepared for market is from 2 to 4% in the large domestic sizes up to 10% in the steam sizes...
...Harvard Index of general manufacturing output increased from 28 per cent below normal in May 1921 to 10 per cent above normal in January 1923, normal being 75-80 per cent of capacity", says the report. "The prices of many commodities stiffened in 1921, but it was not until 1922 that a widespread increase began...