Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operating on the premise that the wise man is the man who knows how wise he really is, Wetzel plans to give IQ tests to any and all "normal, healthy extraverts," even the quiz kids...
While the enlarged enrollment made for a greater total contribution, the former treasurer indicated that it also served to increase the demands on the Fund. In addition to its normal expenses and its larger than normal charity donations, the Fund has undertaken the support of a delegation to the newly formed National Students Organization. Expenditure entailed in this action will add up to between $1,000 and $1,100 this year...
...hosts found her almost suspiciously normal, a slender, friendly woman of 40 who seemed as unaffected as her correspondence. Green-eyed Mollie was no brittle careerist but a woman who, besides working for the New Yorker, was her' own housekeeper, did her own canning...
...time son Melvin went to Princeton, the travel bug had ruined him for normal life. Once, in the middle of a lecture, he took a desperate flying leap out of an open window, landed safely on a ladder that he had known was there, and clambered joyfully down-only to find Princeton President Woodrow Wilson awaiting him at the bottom. "Was the lecture very boring, Mr. Hall?" asked Wilson. "Very, sir." The president gave him a friendly smile, and walked...
School for Hypocrites. To Author Wylie, the churches and the laboratories are the chief villains of the piece. Modern man, he holds, first created God in his own image (a normal, instinctive act), then permitted this image to develop into a "school for hypocrites and university of ignorance." Meanwhile, scientists have gone to the other extreme: in the name of Pure Reason they have omitted morality from their researches. The result: an average citizen who is no better than a "bred sheep"-cut off by church, industry, shibboleths and social fear from self-knowledge and spiritual freedom...