Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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tradition. Last week Secretary Hull, in words which every normal U. S. citizen could instinctively imagine, worked the Conference up to a frenzy of cheers and himself to enthusiastic and forceful gestures as he proposed "Pillars of Peace" for the American Republics. He implored the Conference then & there to drop everything else and unanimously endorse a series of five existing peace accords of which the Briand-Kellogg pact is the most important...
...dictum without question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
Largely a convenient fiction is the statistical notion of "normal business." When depressions end, booms are usually just around the corner. Last week with Depression vanishing into memory, the portents of BOOM drummed excitingly throughout the land. Declared the president of the potent New York State Council of Retail Merchants, John C. Watson, in a Manhattan speech: "We are moving into a feverish time of activity during which our business machine is likely to become more complicated than ever. The boom stage is not here yet but we are so near it that we have no time to lose...
...local ski rendevous is the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. This is but a fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...
...opportunity for fruitful discussion can be seen from the subject-heads of these tables; government revenue and expenditure, maintenance of employment, and competitive enterprise. Problems of this sort have been occupying an ever wider place in the normal discussions of students during recent years, and observers of the changing collegiate attitude have pointed optimistically to the increased interest in such serious topics...