Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 12, 1888 the heavens reached down and smothered the North Atlantic coast under a blanket of snow from 21 in. to 50 in. deep. For a full week the normal activities of civilized life all but ceased. Since that time, all winter cataclysms in the east have been compared to the historic Blizzard of '88. There were memorable storms in 1893, 1910 and 1920. But last week brought two storms which lashed New England to its knees, knotted its icy grip on New York and New Jersey and jolted the entire Southeast. One swept up from Cape Hatteras...
...life a helpless tool of one agency or another, Pu Yi has longed to dodge the trappings of state and lead the life of a normal western youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth...
...Haven the correction classes are continued until the student's posture measures up to the normal standard. There is no arbitrary period of six weeks; indeed, six days or six years would be equally efficacious if the desired results could not be obtained. The Harvard class lacks individual attention, a feature in the Yale course. To prescribe the same medicine for a hundred odd men seems aimlessly general, considering the innumerable variations among individual physiques...
...greater authority in handling the tariff situation is granted, it will be definitely a constructive move toward the improvement of tariff difficulties," said Anton De Haas, Professor in the Business School of International Relationships yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "If we are to restore foreign trade, reestablish normal relations, and collect some of the money the world owes us, it will be necessary to make fundamental changes in the tariff, changes which President Roosevelt intends to produce...
...appears that, while some desirable purpose might be accomplished from the limitation mentioned, no gain in revenue could be expected. On the contrary, if lower officers' salaries were actually paid, a loss in revenue would result. This comes because high salaries bear not only the normal tax but heavy surtaxes, while distributions in dividends would bear no normal tax and, on account of the spread of the amount distributed among all the stockholders, would yield less surtax in the aggregate. In view of the above, your subcommittee refrains from making a recommendation on the subject...