Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aleutian skull appeared perfectly normal, with no evidence of giantism which would have thickened it, or of hydrocephaly ("water on the brain") which would have deformed it. The shape was symmetrical, the forehead impressive. Dr. Hrdlicka believed that it belonged to a brainy Aleut of ordinary stature who inhabited the islands some centuries before the coming of the Russians...
...seven undergraduate Houses ruled that students entertaining women in their rooms must henceforth take at least two at a time. Moaned the editor of the Crimson: "The irony of the situation lies in the fact that such petty annoyances are put in the way of students while the normal requirements of decency, such as preventing loose women from walking into the Houses at 3 a. m., are allowed to lapse...
...week, dragged by its straining, special Pegasus engine. Presently, satisfied that he had broken the world's airplane altitude record and could get no higher, the lone pilot in the enclosed cockpit started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from...
From time to time, the Gehrig string has come close to breaking. He has appeared on innumerable occasions while suffering from colds, headaches, broken fingers and minor ailments, always without noticeable detriment to his play. Practically immune to the normal wear and tear of big-league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy...
John Reed came to Harvard from Portland, Oregon, and graduated with the Class of 1910. He took a normal, fashionable part in college activities, made the Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa...