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Word: normalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unaccountably, It Rolled. Everything seemed normal as Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, pulled out of Elizabethport at 9:57, right on schedule, with a wave to Towerman Joe Halliday, and headed east toward Newark Bay and the Jersey Central's 1.4-mile, four-track trestle and drawbridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Lousy Way to Die | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...everything was not normal. Unaccountably, at a speed of 30 m.p.h. or more, No. 3314 rolled on through three successive signal lights-three clear warnings that a 300-ft. drawbridge span was open. Then, just short of gaping space, the train was derailed by an automatic safety device, bumped along the ties and plunged 40 ft. down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Lousy Way to Die | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh in bed one night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Three Strikes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another doctor found in Billy in infancy. Susan was also thought to have a minor heart enlargement, but all the children were healthy, energetic specimens. Their hearts seemed near normal, at least, and they suffered no undue strain or emotional upset. Their X rays and cardiograms were all "nonspecific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Three Strikes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Though a second Cassini daughter, Christina, was born normal in 1948, Gene's agony over the first child left a deep scar. "That was my war effort," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reborn Star | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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