Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hence, with foreign markets largely evaporated for U. S. agricultural products, with a normal surplus annually produced, it is necessary to find a new domestic market for that surplus...
...Libman's present preoccupation, and probably his most important contribution to the science and practice of Medicine, concerns Pain. Chiefly by evidence of pain can a doctor tell what ails his patient. Diagnostician Libman has discovered that people are either sensitive (i. e. normal) or hyposensitive (i. e. subnormal) to pain and that the sensitives and the hyposensitives show systematically different symptoms when suffering from the same disease...
...hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...
...employed respectively by California, Washington and Stanford Universities informed the people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
Comprising a cloistered collection of crotchety individualists who mortally dread insecurity, the normal U. S. campus resembles an inactive volcano. Beneath its outward calm there rumble, seethe and surge perpetual gratings of opinion, ripples of backbiting and intrigue, tides of hate and fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance...