Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently still unspoilt, Deanna Durbin offstage has the normal 14-year-old girl's fondness for intolerant sentiments, for primly precocious phraseology. She has announced that she will "probably never marry." Asked whether she would like Clark Gable as her leading man. she replied: "Why, I admire Mr. Gable's acting very much, but I believe the choice of a leading man depends on whether or not he is suitable for the role...
...this there was some justification. Steel mill operation held at 84% of capacity, a high figure but disappointing because a rise would be normal. The Iron Age warned its industry of ''revised estimates of the volume of autumn steel business." Lumber output dropped more than seasonally, with orders last week running 20% less than for the same week last year. And commodity prices were down-winter wheat from a 1937 high of $1.29 to $1.02 a bu.; corn from $1.16 to 97? a bu.; cotton from nearly 14? to just above...
Wellsians have frequently exclaimed that the world lost a satirist when Author Wells turned popular pamphleteer. In Brynhild he gives them further matter for exclamation, in such thumbnail flicks as these: "His normal expression was one of patient self-confidence, varied by lapses into great mobility when he was exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew...
Said he: "Already we have more than 3,000,000 acres in States like the Dakotas and Nebraska, which were once the normal breeding grounds for the dm 5, which we are restoring to the natural state of marshland. We have already spent $20,000,000 on the program. Ultimately it will cost about $50,000,000.'' Goal: a minimum of 7,500,000 acres of Federal duck preserves...
...doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears and in succeeding generations the defect will not recur." This was significant because such malformations as polydactyly (extra fingers) often occur on only one hand, sometimes skip a generation...