Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding phenomenon of the ascent was the thick and phosphorescent appearance of the balloon ropes at greater elevations. This, Major Stevens explained, was caused by escape of sea level air and water vapor from the fibers of the rigging, at a pressure one-fifth of normal, which formed a foggy cloud around each rope...
...still well around the corner. Residential contracts for the month were 20% ahead of December and more than twice the total for January 1936. But it is estimated that only 425,000 new U. S. homes will go up in 1937, barely enough to care for replacements and normal population growth without touching the huge housing deficit accumulated in the last few years. Old England, with less than one-third the population of the U. S., has been building 300,000 homes year after year...
...Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million followed, then On the Avenue, which should establish them as top-flight cinecomedians. They have a normal brother and sister named Gertrude and George. They like gambling, but not together because "that's bad luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally for a serious role but Harry confesses: "I can't play straight, I get too embarrassed. Right in the middle...
Pictorials are the chief cause for a photographic staff. The normal necessities of a daily paper which in no way attempts to compete with the tabloids are not so much as to overburden, or even stimulate, two or three alert eameramen. A series of photographic review of the university will provide tutereating work for three times that number...
Many undergraduates have urgent reasons for wishing to do the normal, allotted work as quickly as possible. In their paths is thrown the stumbling block of the extra rule, without apparent regard for the most ordinary principles of justice. A flexible educational; program must consider the differing demands of various intellects, and eliminate rigid and ill-considered restrictions...