Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suppose that it be made the normal thing that nine out of ten (making a far too-generous allowance of 10% for crackpots, misfits, melancholies) of each year's ordinands shall pledge themselves not to marry for two (or four to six) years, making a special offering to God of the gold of those years, and going with a willing mind wherever a bishop sends them. Let their pay in money be ... no more than sufficient for their own actual needs, for food, shelter, and especially boots...
...used a new Auburn chassis for his test. His engine has six cylinders, 100 h. p., weighs only 80 lb. more than the 8-cylinder Lycoming gasoline engine it replaced. It can turn 3,000 r. p. m., make 90 m. p. h. with a gear ratio slightly above normal. It weighs only 8 lb. per h. p., would cost some 10% more than a gasoline engine to put into mass production. It has no spark plugs, no ignition system, no carburetor, is free from carbon. There is no fire or explosion hazard. The exhaust gas is nonpoisonous...
...years higher education in Oregon has resembled a dogfight. In 1929 Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest in bed, her lungs consume 50% to 100% more oxygen than a normal person, the suspect undoubtedly has an overactive thyroid. Women are much more often afflicted than...
Ralph B. Thompson 1G--appointed Assistant in Chemistry. Ed.B., Southern Illinois State Normal University '34. Home: Carbondale...