Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normally the opening of London's Royal Academy show in venerable Burlington House is the opening gun of London's social season, one of the great events of the year. But not in Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...
...when he married Hartville's Lela Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens' enrollment and accumulated an endowment of $1,600,000 but made his college the talk of educators all over...
...freeflight tunnel is a cylinder which may be tilted at a normal airplane glide angle. On the bottom rests a small model of a commercial plane which is to be tested for such things as controllability. As the air rushes into the tunnel, the model takes off, flies completely free. Trailing from it is a thread-like copper wire through which the operator can control ailerons and rudders, see how the ship obeys them...
...rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...
Current Data. Having reached the age of three, the Quintuplets have graduated from the class of biological sideshow freaks into a more normal human status. Like their tiny little bodies which Medicine helped to grow, their inner natures have now developed to the point where character and personality are distinguishable. Biologically they are not identical Quintuplets (from one subdivided ovum) but fraternal ones (from five separate eggs). The 750,000 visitors* who will look in at them during the 1937 tourist season, may value the following third birthday data on what they...