Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's salad bowl is the Salinas Valley, a three-hour motor drive south from San Francisco. In the three normal three-month "deals" or lettuce seasons of the year, growers around Wratsonville and Salinas ship as high as 300 carloads of lettuce per day, raise about 25% of the annual U. S. crop. Two years ago a violent strike tied up the Salinas-Watsonville fields. Settlement came with the signing of a contract between the Fruit & Vegetable Workers' Union and the Growers-Shippers' Association. Fortnight ago the contract came up for renewal. Agreement stalled when...
...determined by measuring the distance between the bridge and the roots of the upper teeth: its contour by following the curve of the nasal bone. To get the fullness of the cheeks he held a pencil from the cheekbone down to the jawbone and allowed a little for normal rounding. He used the same instrument to determine the set of the eyes, holding it slantwise from the eye socket to the cheekbone. (If you do this to yourself, you will find it leaves just enough room for the eyelashes to brush against the pencil...
...gain is only seeming. Slowly social forces resume their course. Reaction gains power. Reason steps in. Emotions rest. . . . Within a decade or a generation, social progress is about to where it would have been under normal process of growth...
...last week was able to advise members of the American Psychological Association, meeting at Dartmouth College, to prescribe benzedrine to gloomy, anhedonic individuals who contemplate suicide. On them the drug has a "very remarkable influence." Benzedrine also has "very interesting and favorable results in a good many of those normal and quasi-normal [such as hangover] states where the individual has not had sufficient rest or is depressed in the morning...
...chain of illogical events Spike's friends lynched the luckless blackamoor Spike had beaten earlier in the evening. Mail-order catalogs had been burned in the flame of local patriotism, but next morning new ones were ordered, and the hot, bitter, hungry life of Conchartee was back to normal...