Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of the normal 4% individual income tax to stockholders' dividends...
...polytechnica or institutes of technology and their younger relatives, the undergraduate schools of engineering, nevertheless have flourished and have served the country well in advancing its frontiers of industry. What their students have lacked in educational background these institutions have tried to fill by the introduction of general studies normal to the college without increasing the length of residence beyond four years. The educational weakness of this system has long been recognized and vigorously attacked; but perhaps more vigorously defended because of the effects upon the present economy of engineering schools of changes that would have to be made...
...enthusiasm provoked Dr. Gertrude Siegmond Nielsen, 41, Norman, Okla. child specialist, wife of a University of Oklahoma physicist and mother of three, to pop up at an A. M. A. section meeting and cry: "Child bearing is so essential an experience for a woman that the thwarting of its normal course by the excessive use of analgesics may cause great damage to her personality. If she is carried through delivery in an unconscious state, she is deprived of the experience of giving birth to her child and in some cases will pay for this escape from reality by nervous disorders...
Most physicians concede that childbirth is the most painful experience endured by human beings. Yet last week's A. M. A. discussions on the alleviation of that physical agony were largely academic for the practical reason that two out of three normal births in the U. S: today are accomplished without any form of pain-killer for the mother. Because the great majority of women bear this natural ordeal bravely, they have made no concerted demand for relief in childbed nor have more than a handful of pioneer doctors attempted to give them any. After last week...
...talk is the prospect of a U. S. housing shortage. Business recovery re-versed the short-lived back-to-the-farm trend, is now unscrambling families which doubled up for economy during Depression, has boosted the marriage rate, a fundamental real-estate statistic. The marriage rate drops far below normal in lean years, creating a "reserve" of unmarried people who hasten to the altar as soon as they can afford it. "The reserve at the present time is about three times as great as it has ever been before," says Mr. Wenzlick. "The release of only a portion of this...