Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baking sun raised temperatures to 90°, to 100°. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average. 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops. Then came the wind, great gusty blasts out of the Northwest. It lifted the dust from the parched fields and swirled...
...report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government. Down, cried the Commission, with pedagogy and its vast jerry-built structure of normal schools, teachers' colleges, Schools and Departments of Education. "The Commission proposes in the field of teacher training: (a) a drastic curtailment in the number of courses-often thin, arid and duplicating-offered in the principles and methods of education; (b) an insistence that persons engaged in training teachers in various branches...
...morning the Senate convened at 10 o'clock, two hours ahead of its normal schedule. At precisely the same moment the New York Stock Exchange was opening for the last session in the third week of a steady decline. Three hours later the bill was passed, 62-to-13. Only Stock Exchange official present in the gallery was its counsel, Roland Redmond...
Both the "Olympic" and the lightship sounded their fog signals according to the rules of the road, but neither heard the other until immediately before the collisions although in normal circumstances their whistles would carry two or three miles. That the radio operators of the "Olympic" were efficiently alert is evidenced by the fact that the ship followed the course of the radio beacon accurately--top accurately; at the same time these very operators were keeping a sharp look-out for any change of strength of signals, which was not detected. The combination of the unfavorable atmospheric conditions...
...Glass Bill will make it possible for small industries now unable to obtain credit through normal banking channels to get federal dollars without slashing through a mass of red tape. The Federal Reserve Banks are authorized to loan $280,000,000 and the RFC an additional...