Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With increasing prosperity, however, sentiments changes. Wages which seemed lavish during the dark hours now appear too small; normal hours--hours which generations of workmen have deemed right--now appear oppressive. The result--strikes. Strikes are not, in themselves, wrong. Many strikes are normal, just and reasonable forms of protection against employer-exploitation and they serve a fair and worthy purpose. But strikes which are organized and financed by a group of publicity experts, labor pirates, professional trouble-makers and highly paid agitators, sitting in richly decorated offices hundreds of miles away; strikes which are planned for months in advance...
Newspapers. Above and behind Queen Mother Mary, the young Princesses and the rest of the royal ladies, high in the Abbey's Triforium Gallery whose normal gloom was dispelled by bright new lights, seats were provided for some 300 eyewitness newshawks from all over the world. In their seats at 6:30 a. m. these writers scribbled furiously for eight hours. They dropped their copy in "takes" (installments) down a specially built chute to the Abbey's cellars. There 40 telegraphers tapped it out unceasingly. In newspaper offices all over the globe, editors and press crews stood...
...subsequent years, Dr. Kanner told the psychiatrists last week, many had become prostitutes. Many had illegitimate children. Fifty-one who married produced 165 children, 108 feebleminded. Not one of their husbands is "endowed with normal or near-normal intelligence...
...bright are agricultural prospects that farm buying has been suggested as the fillip that might lift industry out of a mid-summer slump. Even Wall Street's gloomsters do not seriously believe that Recovery has run its full course. At worst they expect a normal summer lull to develop into a temporary business recession...
...expressed belief that the creature is a catdog hybrid, or that its appearance is due to the exploded theory of 'maternal impressions.' We are dealing almost certainly with a genetic variation in this case, inherited as a recessive character, which characters ordinarily appear in the progeny of normal parents. (Feeblemindedness in humans behaves in the same way, as do a multitude of other characteristics.)" Editor Cook tried to get Mrs. Gannon's "catdog" for study. She refused, fearing that the animal might not be well cared...