Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although education is traditionally the province of state and local government, the financial resources of local school districts and poorer states are simply not adequate to meet the present crisis. Under normal financing methods, the states and communities together could supply only about half of the necessary amount--leaving a gap of billions of dollars...
...snow, nonetheless, will delay river bank gamboling for several weeks, and make the distance to women's colleges seem even further. The normal activities of this term are already slowed--skaters are pausing to shovel off frozen lakes, and careful autoists are wrestling with tires and rusty chains. Even the shoeshine will have to wait until the small boys put away the buckets of water they are now using to freeze snowballs out of dry flakes...
...exercise is ignored, due to a popular misconception that physical activity leads only to more eating, more calories. Required before doctors can accurately diagnose and prescribe: a system of recognizing various types of obesity, precise accounts of obesity patients' family history, exact data on the body's normal food intake (some people's systems require more and different foods than others). ¶ When should weight be brought under some kind of control? Dr. Ercel Eppright, Iowa State's top nutritionist, suggested that weight control should begin during childhood. Thanks to TV and the automobile, children...
...that "people make themselves ill" through strain or worry. But it was only in recent years that anyone advanced a coherent theory of why this occurs: applying his "general adaptation syndrome" theory (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye minutely described how body tissues, adapted to normal stresses, sometimes suffer severe damage because of fatigue, worry or even bad eating habits. Still unanswered was the question of just how individual body cells act under stress. This blind spot stymied the search for remedies...
...TIME, May 19, 1952) and Chinese Gordon (TIME, May 31). Gauguin is an even tougher order, not only because he needs explaining as an artist who helped change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist, but never to a point where they try to suppress or distort the other side of the conflict...