Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scant rainfall has been met with American dry farming methods yielding a 25% crop increase on the School's acreage in normal years. Cross breeding with imported strains has improved the native ''scrub'' live stock...
...candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy-I got myself just as damn dirty as the other boys. I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from...
...best since Christmas. Exporters, jumping to the chance that a depreciated dollar provided, reported the best business in two years in automobiles, machinery, radios, tools. Sales of cotton goods were well in excess of production, something seldom true of that unhappy industry. Wholesale trade was reported above normal. From London came reports that the travel business of Thos. Cook & Son-Wagons-Lits Co. was 10% above last year. For the time being, observers last week agreed there was little doubt that U. S. Business could hold the thin black line of last year's level...
...accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent people he had ever known. The ''very superior" class was four times as large as among normal U. S. citizens. Popular. Marshall went everywhere in the hospitable Koyukuk. talked to everybody except the few Eskimos who spoke no English, painstakingly tabulated his findings. He even listed the quarrels during his stay (43). their ten causes, from insults to insanity. In "the 1,477 minutes spent on matters not directly connected...
...final delight, one finds in somber sincerity an advocate for purveyors of erudition who, with uncanny regularity, find pernicious errors and ommissions within their texts. The affidavit regards the use of abridgements "as unfair to the authors." These men get their only reward for years of slavery from the normal "royalties under their contracts with the publishing houses. These royalties ordinarily are dependent on the volume of sales... The abridgement may ordinarily be had at a price from one-fifth to one third of the price of the book...