Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics, such appointments are normal. Last week Senators Black and Bankhead urged the President to appoint David J. Davis to succeed the late Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama who blasted NRA and TVA with adverse decisions. Prime recommendation that Senator Black gave for Mr. Davis was that he is "a strong supporter of the present Administration...
...broad "Nurnberg Laws" (TIME, Sept. 23). So eager is the Realmleader to get every last Jew out of the government bureaucracy as quickly and easily as possible that Jews still holding State jobs last week will be pensioned off at full salary until the age at which they would normally have to retire, after which they will receive the normal pension to the end of their lives...
...substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...record of the horrors of War in a conventional sense, A Diary Without Dates is charged with a sense of pain, distress, hysteria, communicates the strain of War more poignantly than many a more pretentious volume. The world in which this girl matured was one where normal patterns had been broken, where men lay helpless and suffering and women carried on essential tasks, where dammed-up emotions exploded in queer bursts of affection or rage. The memorable passages include an incident when the author, in an agony of loneliness, heard lovers in a field at night, crept close to listen...
Although we had never imagined Clark Gable as Christian, he made his performance realistic by reacting as a normal individual when he was torn by his hate for the captain and his sense of duty...