Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virgin Birth, he believes, may some day be proved biologically possible. An individual so produced would probably be a male, with half the normal number of chromosomes. Of the propriety of investigating virgin birth, Dr. Barnes says: "Reverence and truth can always be combined, unless the object of our reverence should happen to be untrue...
...Oklahoma City, Okla., George T. Nichols' infected nose swelled to twice its normal size. Claiming the infection was caused by a shaving brush he had bought at a local store, he sued the store for $50,000. Said he: "It is a great humiliation to carry around an infected nose; no one can feel frank and free with his family and friends under such conditions...
...other halls has been evident for some years past. Instead of bringing on a feeling of penitence, which is presumably what was expected, the effect of the old policy was to make the primrose path to everlasting probation even more inviting than it is ordinarily. Placed in a more normal environment, the probationed men may slide into habits of study which would be, in Shepherd, for example, quite unfeasible. The only legitimate regrets are that this reform was not effected sooner, and that it finally came, not because of its advisability, but because of its expediency, Shepherd having been threatened...
Like Professor Babbitt, Mr. Jones offers no plan for reconstruction. He is sick of plans, and all the pictures of graph-mad and system-ridden normal school experimenters which they connote. He merely desires a healthy clearing of the underbrush of American education, and an unplanned but carefully nurtured reforestation of sound principles...
...Yorkers had ever seen anything like it, but in California where Karl Moldrem first became interested in training small children, babies' orchestras have sprung up like weeds. In California it is considered normal for mothers to have cinema ambitions for their children and Karl Moldrem's baby orchestras are calculated to develop stage presence, self-confidence. His first baby band, in Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch...