Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad's great circle route to Vladivostok...
Partially as a warning he went on to say that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences differs peculiarly from every other part of the university. In the other schools, given a normal mentality, by diet of hard work one is almost certain to get a degree. Here this does not hold good. Even with work and an average mentality, unless one has a flair for the subject, one may have to drop...
...Johnsonian in scope, however gifted its new executive director, Donald R. Richberg, may be. For President Roosevelt's action, despite the installation of an old left-winger as the guide and mentor of his refurbished protege, nevertheless is a symptom of subsiding idealistic fever and return to a more normal if prosaic realistic temperature. When governing bodies replace dictators not only do dramatics subside but therewith the chances of detection in case of error. It is true that the President still works the pedals, but obviously he cannot devote the time to the machine that the old autocrat could...
...figures for enrollment in Freshman courses. For instance, there have been changes in the number of men choosing such courses as English 28, English 79, French 2, and Geology 1. How great a responsibility the Guide can assume for even these changes is hard to analyze for there are normal trends at work from year to year which can be hastened or delayed, but not prevented...
Excerpts: "Most of us know what damage the lack of a normal sex life does to either a man or a woman. What it does in the prisons isn't often brought up in polite conversation, but most people know, just the same. . . . New convicts coming into the prisons are promptly approached by veterans in these vices, and initiated into them if they will consent. . . . What this does to the penologists' attempts to make over men into normal citizens, it is easy to imagine. And what must it do to many a convict's wife...