Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the able aid of Undersecretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and what amounts to an increase in the normal corporate tax, the House Ways & Means Committee managed to modify the principle beyond recognition without loss of revenue. In the first basket all corporations earning $25,000 or less were exempted entirely from the undistributed profits tax. The second basket placed a trifling undistributed profits tax (maximum: 4%) on all other corporations- with certain exceptions. One exception was closely-held corporations making more than $75,000. For this group-in the third basket-the surtax and income tax together would...
Like William James, Professor Lake complains of the worship of degrees, and very rightly. The taking of courses for credit, the pursuit of degrees and titles for themselves, has been long recognized as one of the worst features of American Education from Normal School up. Every teacher knows how general and futile cramming for an examination is, and that too few students remember anything significant about the courses they took...
...University of Toronto's thin-faced, reticent Dr. William Emet Blatz, who has charge of the Dionne Quintuplets' education, reported his charges were of average intelligence. Their mental growth was retarded by their premature birth, but they are now advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important...
Last week the Ellensburg frogs were becoming as talked about as the jumping frog of Calaveras County. From accredited scientists came serious assertions that they might be so many Rip van Winkles. Geologist George Beck of Ellensburg's State Normal School went to the Jordan home to see the monsters, said that these frogs might be early Eocene Age. "Just like seeing angels," he exclaimed...
...Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad he is not compelled to choose between right and wrong. Normal persons, and certainly the masses of the people, will feel horror at such moral disintegration...