Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine days, the Nova had risen to peak brilliance. At that time its magnitude was one and a half, a half million times brighter than was normal. This rise is a much slower one than takes place in the usual Nova. It began its normal decline, but stopped falling and held a fairly steady level of about two and a half magnitudes...
...Republicans have maintained throughout the Roosevelt administration that prosperity should return through the normal channels of recovering industry, that no government agency should give it artificial stimulation. But now that Roosevelt is making an effort to protect industry while administering relief, they oppose him. Instead, they would have a relief wage so high that it would take labor away from industry, that would, in fact, give relief, jobs preferment over private capital...
Miss Reed discovered one unmarried mother who was only 11 years old and a 14-year-old girl who had two fatherless babies The number of women who had illegitimate children after they were 40 was negligible. When Miss Reed realized that only 1% of the mothers were normal school graduates and only 2% were college graduates, she hastened to denounce "a belief prevalent among some social agencies, that unmarried mothers now come largely from the better educated classes...
...Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief reason for the venthole: it permits equalized inflation...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...