Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have squirmed, kicked, rolled, crawled, gurgled, cried, laughed, panted, sucked, waked, slept and submitted with good humor or bad grace to endless ministrations. For thousands of years all of these doings were of supreme importance only to their mothers and, sometimes, their fathers. But for seven years such typical, normal baby actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium in two volumes, illustrated with 3,200 action photographs: An Atlas of Infant...
Purpose of this research, which Dr. Gesell calls "normative," was to obtain a comprehensive picture of how a normal baby acts in a variety of situations, uniformly created for each child and for the same child at successive periods. What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures...
Bound up with the decay of the economic system is the problem of technological unemployment, which has been present since the industrial revolution. So-called "normal" unemployment, says Corey, has been a necessity for capitalism, providing a reserve of labor for new undertakings, serving as a club to beat down wages which are always threatening to destroy profits. But with the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion," with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey...
...Private enterprise is getting back upon its own feet, and more and more is exerting its initiative and is able to relieve the Federal Government of responsibilities which under normal conditions belong to business...
...holders of an issue of its equipment trust bonds to come & get their 20 mountain-type locomotives, five switching engines, 200 box cars, 100 ballast cars, three passenger cars and 20 cabooses. With traffic what it was, said the receivers, the road did not need the equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers to hold up their request for court approval until...