Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every important act of man tends to upset the balance of nature. Last week along 1,300 miles of Pacific littoral, from far south of Point Conception to far north of Cape Disappointment, clouds of seagulls flapped anxiously over the waves, ranging out beyond their normal habitats to look in vain for ship-strewn garbage. Because Pacific coast shipowners and the maritime labor unions were fighting, the seagulls were going hungry. It had been this way for two weeks and last week's end brought no improvement...
...Hunter College student, teaches them from old history and geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers were better qualified than the Bongarts, marched the heads of two of the State's normal schools and West Orange's elementary education supervisor, Inez Johnson. After a three-day hearing the State rested its case and the Bongarts prepared to refute...
...Guild with dripping prints for the judges. The fifty early entrants whose work has already come in, are thirty on the whole, as well as beforehand. Not even the most arrant egoist felt sure enough of winning a "large cash prize" to pay for more than three over the normal quota. Or perhaps six prints is all a photographer can bear to show at once...
Eight weeks is the normal length of the competition, but men of outstanding ability are often admitted after a shorter period has elapsed. Members of the Editorial Board make every effort in the early weeks of the competition to weed out those candidates who lack any particular promise, so that the time wasted by both the editors and the neophytes is kept at a minimum...
...neurologists offered definite recommendations: "1) Our knowledge of human genetics has not the precision nor amplitude which would warrant the sterilization of people who themselves are normal in order to prevent the appearance, in their descendants, of manic-depressive psychosis, dementia praecox, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, criminal conduct or any of the conditions which we have had under consideration...