Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent experiment by Dr. George Alexander Gray of San Jose, feeding apricots, peaches, and prunes to 146 anemic patients, showed that there was a definite, efficient, and economical return of the hemoglobin and erythrocyte count to normal upon the ingestion of one-half a pound of dried fruit per day over a period of from eight to 16 weeks...
...aptitude test for all premedical students who expect to apply for admission to medical schools next fall will be given in more than 600 colleges throughout the United States on Friday, December 7, by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Since the test is a normal requirement for admission to all medical schools, including Harvard, and as it is given once yearly, all students planning on a medical course are advised to take...
Author Boyle, neoRomantic, writes of queer people, queer doings. My Next Bride, her latest, treats of a universal disease that is peculiarly virulent in the U. S.; expatriatitis. None of Author Boyle's characters is quite normal but they all have a normal, mortal longing to go home. Those who are not physically prevented find other barriers in their way. Heroine of her tale is a young girl, Victoria, who has cast off her family and country to find "something" abroad. In Paris, nearly on her uppers, she is befriended by two Russian spinster sisters, who introduce...
...confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real pleasures, of vanity." He regards himself in the same breath as normal: "I am being my own rabbit because I find no other specimen so convenient for dissection. Our own lives are all the practical material we have for the scientific study of living; the rest is hearsay." And supernormal: "The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does...
...professional cricketer; his mother, a lady's maid who rose to be a housekeeper. Young Bertie, after a scattered schooling, started real life as a draper's apprentice. He hated the job, did it badly. He liked school teaching a little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back to teaching once more. A long apprenticeship at freelance writing taught him gradually how to write naturally...