Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen who went to bed that night soothed by the friendly declaration were startled next day when in Detroit, where Nominee Landon had plumped for free enterprise two days before, Nominee Roosevelt reverted to more normal New Deal tones, declared that "The automobile industry and every other industry still need great improvements in their relationships to their employes. . . . Manufacturers . . . must, by planning, do far more than they have done to date to increase the yearly earnings of those who work for them...
...Commonwealth's children had no educational opportunities whatever. The Secretary of the new Board of Education began his work with little authority, less encouragement. Tirelessly he set about raising money, delivering speeches, holding Town meetings to spread the gospel of universal education. Without fanfare he established a Normal school in Lexington, first in the U. S. He set up and enforced a minimum school year of six months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than $2,000,000 on school buildings and equipment, established 50 new public high schools. Gradually Mann's influence spread to other states...
...Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty, including a suction pump to clean the uterus after an operation and a method of quickly reducing the uterus to normal size after an abortion...
...Minnesota, scrimmages stop when football starts. Instead of scrimmaging - which Bierman considers boring, dangerous, and useless :for college players old errough to know the game - -Minnesota's first-string players concentrate on kicking, running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart quarterbacks. He had the quarterbacks build their plays around strategies more complex than those used...
...spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post-War inflation his interest in waste rose. Starting with the common knowledge that wood can be softened and bent by steaming, Inventor Mason finally arrived at the explosion process for reducing...