Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just a scant year ago, Professor William Alfred was a normal Harvard English professor, noted primarily among undergraduates for his sonorous Old English recitations, his passionate lecture gesticulation, and his exasperation with the microphone of Lowell Lec. There were some rumblings about a play in-the-works but nobody paid much attention...
...large number of small individual accounts. Therefore, the bank must rely on building up a large enough volume of small accounts to make handling them profitable. In the bank's present situation, where the costs of funds available to loan out are high, it is a normal banking reaction to minimize loan risk by spreading loans to other areas than Harlem, and to other borrowers than Negroes...
...current Administration policy. Public opinion is too muddled and too contradictory, and in only a few cases will the electorate have the opportunity to choose between clear-cut alternatives. Even then the choice will be something less than a referendum on Vietnam policy; the results will also depend on normal partisan alignments, differences on domestic policy, and personal popularity...
...Varieties of Religious Experience, William James had this to say about his experience with nitrous oxide: "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give...
...have a first-class brain, and yet be unable to get a good job because he has an ugly protruding jaw," said the Army's Colonel Robert B. Shira, president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons. "If he has difficulty in chewing, he cannot eat many normal foods. He may develop disease in the mouth because his teeth don't meet properly. And he may get a complex because he doesn't look like other people. The psychological factors are enormously important. Now, with Obwegeser's techniques, we can completely alter the appearance...