Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose of his experiment. Near the "sender" but unknown to him was installed a six-foot parabolic reflector to project any unconscious whispering toward the "receiver." The receiver had a similar reflector to focus any such sounds...
...been Packard's architect for 35 years, Ford's for 30, Chrysler's since the firm was incorporated in 1925, General Motors' on 127 projects. And as the products of those companies girdle the globe, so do the works of Albert Kahn, Inc. Employing a normal staff of 400, his is the biggest private architectural machine in the world. Its greatest job: supervising the creation of an estimated $2,000,000,000 worth of factories in Russia during the first Five-Year Plan...
...thousands who could read a newspaper. Realizing that China would be in graver need of bright men after than brave men during the war, he requested students to stay in school and college. Consequently, in China's 13 U. S.-aided colleges,* enrollment remained within 1,800 of normal capacity. In the U. S. last week, the National Emergency Committee for Christian Colleges in China announced that an emergency fund of $300,000 had been raised which would guarantee that the 13 could carry...
...Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again has use of his leg. If the operation is performed on children around 12, the short leg usually grows in length as fast as the normal leg. In a few cases, when patients attained their full height, they discovered that the normal leg had outstripped the short one by an inch...
...picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...