Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty has declined far below that originally estimated for 1932-33, the reductions in the Faculty budget are relatively slight. Salaries of all teaching officers, except those annual appointees whose salaries vary in direct proportion to the amount of work assigned them and are decreased or increased even in normal years in accordance with the work available for them, were not reduced, and the rate of salary paid teaching officers whose salaries are fixed by the work for which they are employed was not reduced. It is fortunate that past economies have made it possible for the Faculty of Arts...
...companion, wearing heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...Saturday, the Nation's first Democrat placed the issue of dictatorship before Congress and the American people. In his Inaugural Address, President Roosevelt said, "It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But in the event that the Congress shall fail" in the speedy adoption of measures to meet the national emergency, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would...
...postponing their buying and economizing in every way, it is exceedingly foolish for the State to withdraw its funds from circulation by reductions and restrictions. Its credit is the best in the world; it would have no difficulty in raising the money to keep the shop running at a normal, sound rate of expenses...
...they are not in agreement. With kings and emperors, with any other negations of the democratic ideal, Mr. Fish is not troubled. He might even, he says, consider recognition were Russia a socialist country. But with him the aged chimera of revolt obscures the definite and practical advantages of normal relations with a powerful political unit. The glory of maintaining such a prejudice as this is, as Mr. Fish may find, not a wholly unmixed...