Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Airlines furnished Jones with his gas (twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their...
...seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...
...Botanical Research. At present two of its more notable fields of research are those in which assistant professor Kenneth V. Thimann is working on auxin and Dr. Carl Sachs on colchicene. For some time botanists had been trying to find a way to reproduce plants by other than the normal reproductive cycle in the plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when the end of a plant shoot had been left in a solution of auxin for twenty-four hours and planted immediately and cared for diligently...
...present there are in the Biological green-house plants double the normal size which growth Dr. Sachs has been noting...
...what are commonly called outrages. They are properly so called by people who believe that decency in behavior is one of the elementary rules of action for civilized community is built. They are outrages politically as well as morally. But they are outrages first of all because they offend normal human feeling; it takes pathological terms to describe the men who can dictate such acts, as well as the man whose "healthy" instincts thrive on committing them. If we bring ourselves to any vivid realization of them they become unbearable...