Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facade of the building will be a lattice of precast finely-finished architectural concrete with panels of different colors to give variety," the University revealed. By breaking the large structure into units of smaller and varying facades, both texturally and structurally, the monolithic feeling of a normal ten-story building will be avoided...
Kittredge may have terrorized many of his students, but they probably failed to understand that his momentary outbursts of temper were merely outlets for the tension built up by the strain of his 16-hour working day. Nevertheless, these frightened undergraduates knew their Shakespeare. In a normal year, he required them to memorize 600 lines and to know the rest of the six selected plays well enough to be able to recognize 60 spot quotations on the final exam...
Georges Florovsky, professor of Eastern Chruch History, said that it is "quite normal that a university with a Christian Protestant tradition should have a memorial chapel for the use of members of that denomination," even though the chapel may be dedicated to persons not of that tradition...
...land mass of Siberia, gathered fury and moisture over the Pacific, homed east and southeast along the jet stream, roared in around Marin County's Mt. Tamalpais in 100-m.p.h. gusts. In the first 3½ days of April, San Francisco got 3.96 in. of rain. Normal rainfall for all of April: 1.49 in. Rain cascaded down the city's spectacular slopes, spilled knee-deep into downtown streets. On residential Mt. Sutro a strange sea of mud 100 ft. long and 25 ft. deep seeped toward a couple of apartment houses. In the tidelands community of Alviso, almost...
...irrigated Central Valley, spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...