Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House common room. Informality is the essence of the show. The undergraduate can sip coffee and converse at the same time as he enjoys Mr. Rubenstein's work, and surely this is the truest spirit of art, not forced upon one stiffly from museum walls, but blended into normal and everyday surroundings...
...Dvorak concluded that the old keyboard needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...teachers and the manufacturer of his size 37 shoes said that he was "obedient," "bright," interested in Chinese checkers, ping-pong and girls, ate little more than an average man. He was also kind to little children. Dr. Louis Henry Behrens of St. Louis said that he was a normal boy except for his size and his "beautiful hands...
...that Robert had a pituitary tumor at the base of his brain, which "soured his attitude towards life" and prevented him from coordinating his muscles. He contrasted the stumbling, shuffling manner in which Robert maneuvered his 495 Ib. with the "easy grace" of Jack Earle, who, he said, was normal. He added that Robert had difficulty in swallowing, that his voice was weak and mumbling, that he had no feeling in certain parts of his body...
With the conclave rapidly disbanding and the Vatican returnin to normal life, the Holy Father went to the luxurious apartment which he had occupied as Secretary of State and which had been considered his "cell" (given the number 13) during his conclave. He telephoned his sisters Elizabella and Giuseppina told them his election gave them his blessing. He visited a devoted friend who had been ill during the conclave-Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggini. the ailing Prince raised himself to bow, murmering: "Holy Father. . . ." But the Pope said: "Ah, not for tonight. . . . Let me still be your Eugenio to my Francesco...