Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whitey is an albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions...
...committee room of the munitions investigation, love of peace is kept at white heat, but when Mr. Baruch made this declaration, the noble emotion of Senators, witnesses and onlookers alike was momentarily superseded by normal human curiosity. Mr. Baruch promptly proceeded to satisfy that curiosity. The great South Carolina-born speculator whom President Wilson made head of the War Industries Board had prepared a letter setting forth his security holdings and profits during the period...
...arterial clamp was released suddenly. The blood spurted only six inches vertically and only 18 inches laterally. That is the maximum spurt with the flesh held clear. But in a normal cut where the edges of the wound do not gape, blood from the back of the head would well rather than spurt. This proves that a severed occipital artery cannot throw blood around a bathroom as the Lamson defense contends...
Wartime was normal life to Lilo Linke and her contemporaries. Substitute food, standing in line, semi-starvation were more exciting than dreadful. Every day brought some change, some new restriction to be got around somehow. What she principally minded were her ragged clothes. Adolescence and the Armistice made her more aware of events. By the time street-fighting started outside her own Berlin tenement she knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed...
Hypotheses have been advanced attributing the extraordinary number of Kansas meteorites to some twist of gravitational or magnetic attraction. Expert Nininger chuckles at such notions, believes that Kansas has received no more than a normal quota of falls, of which an unusually high proportion has come to the notice of Science. Reasons...