Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 three in the morning, are allowed to lapse by an incompetant staff...
...effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around...
Special effort will be made this year by the Chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, Edward T. Ladd '38, to integrate foreign students with the normal life of the college. Informal dinners in the Houses and at the Union have proved successful in recent years and will be particularly emphasized. Following initial effort on the part of the Committee valuable and interesting friendships have been made...
...best sense of the term, Prince Bernhard is a first generation "mama's boy" and Crown Princess Juliana is a second generation "mama's girl," her mother Queen Wilhelmina having been reared and dominated by the late autocratic Queen Emma of The Netherlands (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Normal court usage would have been for the Crown Princess to propose to Benno, but Dutch courtiers stated last week that he proposed to Juliana in Switzerland...
...decreased crop estimate was that in the Eastern half of the cotton belt, cotton prospects had improved during August to the tune of 264,000 bales. In the Western half cotton conditions had gone from bad to worse. In August Oklahoma had only one twenty-fifth of its normal rainfall. That cut 226,000 bales off its estimated production. Texas, which normally produces one out of every three bales, had less than half a normal August's rain. That cut off 814,000 bales. Other Western states accounted for the rest...