Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
...Tennessee last month an 11-year-old girl safely gave birth to a normal healthy baby (TIME, Sept...
...dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre. Dosing with hormones is less brutal than surgery. Doctors begged pharmacologists to give them in pure form the active principles of the endocrine glands...
...Being married to him kept me from enjoying any normal girlhood. I know it is too late now to try and go back and recapture the fine ecstasy of adolescence, but perhaps I may at least be a normal young widow now that poor 'Daddy's' death has removed the strange tie which has kept me from being either married or single through these eight years of separation...
Laytex stretches to seven and one-half times its normal length before snapping and its tensile strength is 5,000 lb. per sq. in. After a fortnight's soaking in water electrical resistance is decreased by only...