Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance to science is that they have a unique hereditary defect of the sort which crops out occasionally in nature but which human investigators cannot produce at will. Some disturbance in the rat chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ plasm) prevents their soft, prenatal cartilage from developing into a normal skeleton. The young appear normal for two weeks, then become bandy-legged as if suffering from rickets. Usually they die at the age of four to five weeks, with soft, collapsed ribs and emphysema of the lungs (air leakage into the spaces of the connective tissue...
...theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
...third, total production of 2,704,992 units was little more than half 1937's. But even this figure was nearly twice as high as 1932's Depression I low. And by the season's end the glutted used-car market was back to normal and only 90,000 new cars remained unsold, an almost unprecedented cleanout of the nation's 45,000 showrooms...
Characterizing the loss by the Demoerats of several seats in the House and Senate as "a normal political phenomenon," Holcomber hold that any change contemplated in the traditional alignment of the parties before the vote could still be brought about...
...Roosevelt victory of 1936," the professor stated, "but should not be interpreted either as an unqualified rebuke to the Roosevelt leadership of the Democratic party or sure augury of greater Republican successes in 1940." Gains by the opposition party at the mid-term Congressional election are a normal political phenomenon...