Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to recent newspaper reports, "there is no evidence that cancer is a germ disease." Cancer is a wildfire growth of "anarchist cells" which have broken away from the normal rhythm of cell growth. These anarchist cells are found everywhere in nature: in mice, apes, dogs, horses, fishes, birds, insects, plants...
Sweeping are the indictments against U. S. teachers: 1) they know too little about a) the subjects they teach, b) social conditions, c) children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession. Moreover, the chances are seven-to-one that a pupil in twelve years of public schooling will get two teachers who are neurotic or downright psychopathic for these reasons...
Nevertheless, teaching is an honorable profession, and some 100,000 earnest if not top-notch young people prepare for it each year. Busy turning them out are some 1,200 institutions, including normal schools (now rapidly being converted into teachers' colleges) and liberal arts colleges. Because the liberal arts colleges expect more of their graduates to enter teaching than any other single profession, liberal arts and teachers' colleges today are deadly competitors. Teachers' colleges are busy awarding points in many professional courses but fail to give their students a broad education. The liberal arts colleges turn...
...What! Oh, I'm just Vag." O, treachery! Fly, Vag, fly, fly, fly. Avaunt ye. Tis he--cruel murderer of innocent men and children. But was this perfectly normal, mild young man the bloody tyrant who had dinned Shakespeare's powerful, tragic lines into the ears of the sceptical and untutored younger generation for the last three hours? who had boomed it and shouted it over their wisecracks and embarrassed titterings until he finally wooed their interest by pure lung power? Once wooed, Shakespeare's own magic had a chance to function, and had won the evening. But how could...
Specialists in the analysis of bank figures for the purpose of determining business trends are Townsend-Skinner and Co. Inc. In collaboration with them, the TIME Index of Business Conditions was worked out on these principles.* The final weighted average of accounting ratios is based on no assumed "normal." adjusted to no economists' idea of "long term trend." It is, in effect, simply a report on how sound business was last week, a subject which TIME considers news...