Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of what he saw and reported in the American Medical Association Journal last week was news: The inside of the normal stomach "presents a brilliant picture-glistening, bright, orange red. The apparently normal gastric mucous membrane often contains some hemorrhages and pigment spots. The significance of these is perhaps not yet entirely clear." Stomach ulcers are yellow or greyish white, stomach cancers dark brown or violet...
...relief agencies closing down in reprisal against men on relief who refused to take jobs. That may make good front-page stuff, but there's no truth in it. . . . We closed the relief rolls in areas now harvesting because we felt that the situation there is approaching the normal. . . . We are emerging from the Depression. Agriculture is leading...
Such leakage occurs in glaucomatous eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...Strong." Neither sin nor suit can solve the problem which confronts Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx. When Miss Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent...
...vote a "death sentence" upon utility .holding companies. Now Dr. Morgan and Mr. Lilienthal were particularly interested to see whether it would cap one defiance with another, or whether the President was justified in his confidence that, frightened by its previous temerity, the House would return to its normal obedience. TVA's Morgan and Lilienthal fairly gurgled with satisfaction to find how completely right Papa Roosevelt, experienced in training children, was in his forecast...