Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in a State (one of many) in which college graduates with a love for little children and a talent for handling them are deliberately forced out of the teaching profession in favor of graduates of the State Normal School because, if you please, they have not learned how to teach by means of an all-important and all-embracing subject called, appropriately, Education. What becomes of the brilliant and versatile college girls? . . . whom we parents should like to see molding the characters of our children in their tender years? I'll tell you. They are driven...
Every day he went down to his rocking chair in the square; every night he went home to bed. After three days his attending physician reported his pulse and temperature normal but forbade him to speak to the Press. He was presented with two bottles of blessed water from the fountain of Santa Rosa de Lima and a flag which had been borne in the unsuccessful Lares Rebellion...
...stories brought him not regrets but pleasure. To an outsider the work seems excessive, but the candidate finds time for his studies. He will give up the latest movie, Sinclair Lewis' new book, the midnight show at the Old Howard, and the rest of the necessities for a normal, life, because he enjoys the sacrifice...
...Roman Catholic Church. The Virgin Birth refers, of course, to the birth of Christ, while the Immaculate Conception refers to the birth of Mary, the mother of Christ, and holds that Mary was born free from all original sin. Protestants believe, of course, that Mary was a normal, God-fearing woman who was honored by being selected to be the mother of our Lord...
...nearest to Africa and to Asia is Italy. . . . "Italy has held a policy of friendship with Austria ever since the World War and will continue to do so. The Hungarians are a strong people, who merit and will be accorded a better destiny. Our relations with Jugoslavia are normal; that is to say, diplomatically correct, but nothing more. Relations with France have improved generally. "To pretend to eternally keep a nation like Germany disarmed is pure illusion, unless one has the objective of preventing by force of arms Germany's eventual rearmament. This game has a supreme stake...