Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point when the writer inserts suggestions from his own mind. Whenever a door is closed behind the two, the reading public snickers. "Sex in the head" is, I believe, what Frieda Lawrence calls it. For all we know they may be playing tiddle-dewinks. Why not be charitable? Normal people do sometimes enjoy each other's company, even if they are not of the same...
...also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which his artillery was "dusting" with light shells. Franco police were trimly attired and wore the hard, tricornered hats which to Spaniards are the normal symbol of law & order. The Generalissimo's program was Back to Normalcy for Spain...
...about Senator Norris, weapons: three speeches a day, a lifetime of struggles that has conferred on rugged farm-trained body the mantle of honest Senator Norris college days were days of postponment. Born in Ohio, he worked on farms during summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican in name...
Since the normal Sears course had been interrupted by the new tax, President Wood proposed to raise the necessary funds by selling common stock to stock holders and employes for the first time since the original public offering in 1906. Subject to their approval, stockholders will be given rights to buy one new Sears share for every ten of old, at not less than $60 per share (current price: $98). That meant the sale of approximately 600,000 shares, which will provide at least $36,000,000 and constitute the biggest common stock offering since...
...total sales were $276,000. To handle this tremendous increase in volume Sears had to carry bigger inventories, more accounts receivable. The rise in these two items alone required $60,000,000 of additional working capital, a sum provided part by bank loans, part by profits. In the normal course, wrote President Wood, the bank loans would have been paid off out of earnings, thus perpetuating the Sears tradition of financing its own growth...