Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott, the British schoolteacher who told us [TIME, Jan. 6] what she thinks of U.S. schools. I absolutely agree with her. After five years of high-school teaching, I gave it up for a less well paying job where the strain was less and where I could lead a normal adult life...
...will also be of service to bibliographers and students in other parts of the country and abroad, and assist the visiting scholars and researchers "who in normal times come to the Widener building at the rate of 1200 a year," Metcalf concludes...
Actually he is an amiable, approachable man with a dry, friendly wit, who likes to talk and mix whiskey with his soda. He is not a cold fish; nor is he filled with feverish excitement. His temperature is normal. He is a self-disciplined man who is very sure of himself...
...probable that if I had been an American 15 or 20 years ago I would have been an isolationist, by instinct if not by conviction. Naturally, I would have been wrong. But I would have been one just the same. It would not have seemed normal to me to have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently...
Obsessed with the great difficulties in the first alternative, other American groups have preferred to admit Communists and control them in the normal course of democratic politicking. On one hand, this treatment avoids the monumental task of distinguishing party members from progressives who do their own thinking and who, all too often, are swept away by indiscriminate housecleaners. But what can guarantee Communist conduct in democratic activities? Only the greatest vigilance prevents a tightly knit minority, well-trained in political techniques, from feeding on the indifference of the moderates until it emerges as master of policy and direction. Many youth...