Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was back to normal. In Portland, Me. the temperature dropped to 8.9° below; in Los Angeles it soared...
...much would it take? No one was sure, but last week the U.S. Navy provided a clue. It announced that it was sending enough U.S. Marines to its Mediterranean force (the big aircraft carrier Midway, three light cruisers and ten destroyers) to beef it up to full normal manpower...
...what makes an alcoholic drink, according to Dr. Roger J. Williams of the University of Texas. The alcoholic's craving for alcohol has a physiological or biochemical basis that is not generally understood; his reaction to a given quantity of alcohol is violently different from that of the normal individual: "As long as we deal with the average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism is 74 times as common a cause of psychoses among...
...been doing. In 1948, it would get more outside help in supplying food, the burden that had put the greatest strain on the U.S. There were good crops in Australia and Argentina, and even hope that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While the U.S. still worried over finding some magic nostrum to curb inflation, some slight curbs were already at work. Credit was being tightened...
...paramecium is a minute one-celled animal which multiplies both non-sexually (by simple division) and by a kind of primitive pairing. Several years ago, Dr. Sonneborn discovered that special strains of paramecia give off a poison (paramecin) that kills normal paramecia. The "killers" differ from the "sensitives" in only one known respect: the amount of a substance called "kappa" which they contain...