Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beloved by Britain's masses. Billed as a "Sunday Referee Special," the startling story related how "a peasant woman, forty-two years of age, sits in Triboure, a lonely little village on a spur of the Pyrenees. Her foot rocks a cradle in which lie-SIX FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there is no cable line in the little village. . . . There are no telephones." Pictures of the sextuplets Jean-Pierre, Jean-Paul...
...highs. Corporate earnings for the March quarter were impressive, the first 108 companies to report showing a 43.5% average increase in profits over the same period last year. But here & there first quarter results failed to justify the hopes expressed in high prices for their stocks. And with the normal spring rise in business approaching a peak, both businessmen and speculators were, as usual, concerned with neither past nor present but with the future...
Among easily discernible evidences that Recovery was still pretty ragged were three prime Federal Reserve Board indices: 1) industrial production during the March quarter fell less than 5% short of the 1923-25 "normal"; 2) employment, however, was only about 84% of that normal; 3) payrolls lagged at about...
Friends, In the life of a normal child celebrity, it is not contact with the adults whom she meets in her work which is dangerous but encounters with children of her own age. Accustomed to celebrities, her studio acquaintances treat Shirley Temple like an ordinary child. Ordinary children, by being shy and filled with awe, sometimes give her an exaggerated sense of her importance...
...engine has 14 cylinders, in two circles of seven each, one circle behind the other. The power at normal maximum is 1,000 h.p.; at "emergency" maximum, 1,150 h.p. The engine weighs 1,250 lb., or only 1.09 lb. per horsepower, a record low. Air-cooled, it has 21,000 sq. in. of cooling fin surface...