Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lies not in the ownership of some eighty square miles of territory, but in the fact that the island is the key to telegraphic communication with the Far East. "All messages for the Dutch Indies," President Mackay of the Commercial Cable Company has testified, "were sent via Yap under normal conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control...
...Sayler, who was in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and found the theatres the most normal institutions of that land, will illustrate his speech by lantern slides, giving an intimate view of the work of the Bolshevik regime...
...developed at any such rate unless the factor of incentive, such as we find during the hours of competitive play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner in which the muscular system is called upon in cases where quick or unusual action is essential...
...graduate must proceed with some caution in speaking of the superiority of former days for we are entirely conscious of the fact that Harvard has won only three intercollegiate championships in thirty years. We do feel, however, that it is only normal for Harvard to win her fair share of dual meets...
...month both railroad and industrial stocks lost some of the gains they had made since Christmas, the slump in each group being about two points, but most of the loss has been regained during the past week. We regard recent movements in the security market as a normal minor fluctuation in a generally upward trend Further encouragement is to be drawn from the fact that this recovery took place in the face of a slight stiffening in call money rates...