Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diverted Streams. For a while Nelson Rockefeller went quietly about his normal New York life-which probably has no parallel among the city's 8,000,000 other residents. He is board chairman of Rockefeller Center, now mortgage free and conservatively valued at $150 million. From the RCA Building's Room 5600 ("Rockefeller, Office of the Messrs."), he presides over some $15 million worth of business investments in 17 other countries. He is a member of 18 boards of directors. He supports with his brothers nearly $4,000,000 worth of charities and special projects a year, from...
...professor then explained the normal course of study for an undergraduate interested in history: In his first two years he takes the prescribed course of study for all those concentrating in history; at the end of his second year he chooses his particular field of interest. Upon graduation, he is considered qualified to teach history in high school, the speaker said...
World War II had an enormous impact on the University, of course. It drained off most of the civilian students and forced the suspension or modification of their normal undergraduate activities. The resumption of customary College life after the War seems, then, the logical jumping-off point for this article--especially since the history of Harvard theatre up to the War has been retold many times, while its course from the War to the present has not yet been chronicled...
...been overthrown by a motion of no confidence, even though Parliament has made the Premier's life impossible, or should the President dissolve the Assembly whenever it has paralyzed the government, then a move which the President might interpret as a pure act of arbitration "designed to insure the normal functioning of the institutions" will inevitably become a hot political issue...
Martin Street has "no parking--tow away zone" signs on the odd-numbered side, but no signs whatsoever on the even side. The normal propensity of an unsuspecting person would be to avoid the odd side at all times and to assume that parking on the unposted side was allowable at all times. But actually, this is true only in February, April, June, August October, and December. In all other months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side...