Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...
Sitting in Dean Watson's office less than an hour after the last students left Mill St., Watson and Dean Monro deplored the afternoon's events. Over and over they emphasized that this demonstration had exceeded the bounds of normal, permissible, and predictable behavior of Harvard students -- the two men simply hadn't expected it. Neither had been at the scene, and as they received more and more information, they became increasingly offended. Monro said initially that the matter would not go before the Administrative Board, because the College disliked judging any sort of political protest. The next day, having...
...juggling his rats' intake of chromium, Dr. Schroeder found that a severe shortage, such as afflicts many adult Americans, caused many of the rats to develop first diabetes and then artery disease-a condition remarkably like progressive human diabetes. With animals kept at what Dr. Schroeder considers a normal chromium level, there was virtually no diabetes or atherosclerosis. "Specialists in diabetes and in atherosclerosis," he said, "are beginning to see their disciplines overlap...
When both the nation's biggest automaker and its biggest steelmaker report substantially lower earnings, headline readers would normally conclude that the economy is in a bad way. But 1966 is anything but normal, and last week's news of lower profits in autos and steel failed to upset the relative optimism among chart watchers in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington-not to mention Wall Street...
...these people have to learn is that a ballet cannot successfully be put on film until it has been radically rechoreo-graphed for the camera. What is required is a simple marriage of two modes of movement, and Red Shoes demonstrated that several million ballet buffs will support the normal offspring of such a marriage. No more monsters, please...