Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy squawk anent the use of analgesics, but I can't. Upon reading her statement (TIME, May 25) that the pains of child-birth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women and that a woman's personality may be damaged if the normal course of child-bearing is altered by the use of a painkiller, I was reminded of the terrible day upon which I was called unexpectedly and against all desire to witness one woman's agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road...
...Than normal, two-fisted, out-of-doors- loving Clark Gable, no man might sympathize more with Lawyer Drinker. Breaking out of a clinch before the cameras with Jeannette MacDonald last week in Hollywood, able Clark Gable declared: "Picturegoers don't want performances in which the actor mugs all over the screen. ... I mean, lingering embraces and prolonged osculation are no longer necessary...
What has kept bonds booming ever since has been progressively lower interest rates. At first interest rates declined because there was less demand from businessmen for money, a normal depression phenomenon. Since the New Deal, however, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, working in close harmony, have borne down on the money market with every available credit control, chiefly those whose manipulation tends to build up big bank reserves. One purpose of this easy money policy was to make private borrowing cheap, the hoary formula for reviving depressed business. So far U. S. businessmen have done little new borrowing...
...Gladstone's Parliament his power was so great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump...
...blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base...