Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot C. Cutler '99, Moseley professor of Surgery, yesterday announced that the removal of normal thyroid glands will give permanent relief to those afflicted with angina pectoris, a painful heart disease. He revealed that the Medical School had been studying the effects of such operations for more than a year...
...normal year U. S. railroads lay about 3,000,000 tons of rails. Last year they laid 304,000 tons, bought new only 185,000 tons. But already saddled with debt (and regulation), few railroadmen were eager to go further into debt just to help the railmakers and the NRA. But the only one who spoke his mind was Edward Eugene Loomis, rugged president of Lehigh Valley, the late George Fisher Baker's closest friend. "Lehigh Valley does not need rails at this time," snorted Mr. Loomis. "Great days we're having now for hair-trigger planners...
...time spent by present beneficiaries of the Plan. Under this arrangement, the useful and educational work which is included in the Plan would displace the objectionably wasteful and routine jobs, and the workers would at the same time be given more leisure in which to pursue their normal University activities. Moreover, men in scientific fields who are often prevented from undertaking the present jobs because of their heavy laboratory schedules would be put upon an equal footing with the rest of the College...
...believe the Minneapolis osteopath massaged a nerve center in the small of Mr. Murphy's back to correct his stooped condition. I believe the osteopath manipulated the area of the spine in question to restore its unimpaired mobility and adjusted the spinal joints to their normal anatomical relationship. If massage was used it was as an adjunct as it might be used by a member of any other school of practice. Stimulating or "massaging" the nerve trunk near its exit from the spinal canal would affect organs associated with that nerve trunk through communicating branches but would not particularly...
...underwriters meeting in Chicago heard sharp criticism, of the practice of underwriting huge policies (called "jumbos") of $1,000,000 or more. Vice President John Melvin Laird of Connecticut General Life observed that responsible companies have grown shy of underwriting jumbos, that they are a dangerous risk even in normal times. Said he: "Statistics show that the death rate on this type was excessive on issues of the 'boom' decade carried to the anniversary of 1930. The experience includes a period of generally favorable mortality and excludes practically all the Depression. Nevertheless the mortality on persons insured...