Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should behave with procrastination and discretion. Would he please be so discreet as not to return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about to hand him 63,000 acres in eight districts of Austria, real estate in Vienna which in normal times yielded some $50,000 a year, the Mannersdorf Dairies which sell 4˝ million litres of milk annually, a list of other Habsburg property which grew daily, and a lump sum indemnity of $10,000,000 for destroyed or confiscated property which the Government was sorry not to be able...
...condition of the crop in his neighborhood. Before answering he generally takes a spin in his car through the fields, carefully inspecting the stand for blight, damage from drought or rain, condition of the kernel. He makes his report to the forecaster on the basis of percentage of normal?normal being the long-range average yield. Since the forecasters already know how many acres have been planted, the estimate of yield is arrived at by multiplying the normal yield by the percentage of normal reported by the correspondent...
...clans or families. Children of a family all took their mother's clan name, and the clan included those related by blood on the mother's side as well as others merely considered kin. A man could never belong to the same clan as his children, since normal marriages could take place only between different clans. From Shot-in-the-Arm, Ethnologist Lowie learned that clans provided groupings for competitive entertainment, heard about war games between the Whistling Waters and Greasy Mouths. Clansman fought for clansman, avenged a murder by killing the murderer or a member...
...demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...
...poisoning which leads slowly to atypical growth and to cancer. We believe, also, that in this way it will be possible to make a cancer slowly disappear, by re-establishing the organic defences which will take care of the growth, which will be absorbed slowly by autolysis, phagocytosis, or normal connective-tissue growth. Such a cure of cancer seems more logical than a specific remedy with power to kill cancer cells and leave untouched normal cells...