Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat, the other scare commodity which Truman proposes for greater European export, still is being consumed by the College at normal levels durant reported. He agreed to poll student opinion before ordering outs in bread, wheat cereals, and other combinations containing wheat...
...intern, she began working with cretins and morons. Then she decided to study how normal kids were brought up. She visited schools, was horrified to see rows of children kept immobile behind their desks "like butterflies transfixed with a pin." This, Maria Montessori declared, did not discipline the children; it "annihilated" them...
Knots & Stoppers. She decided that normal children can learn more quickly than their teachers realize. But they learn first through their hands, she observed, then with their brains. In 1906, she set up a school in a Rome tenement, gave the kids freedom, to learn by themselves. There were knots to untie, stoppers to put into bottles. Soon the pupils were beginning to copy letters cut out of cardboard. One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino." In a few days, the other four-year-olds were learning to write...
...friends call Ock is 6 ft. 1½ in. of unassuming reticence. He has a shy smile that creeps out from under an almost constant frown. He walks slowly, with gangling dignity, like a freshman playing a Roman emperor. In a business where hysteria is honorable and neuroticism normal, he seems completely untemperamental. Baffled by normalcy as heathen are baffled by saintliness, show people from Sardi's to Giro's see him in an unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking me what do I think...
...mixed two strains: one which could not produce vitamins, and another which could not produce certain amino acids. Because of experimental difficulties, Dr. Tatum did not see what happened next; but presently he had a crop of normal Escherichia coli. Their genetic completeness could come only from a combination of both strains. He concluded that the contrasting strains had mated and fused, the good qualities of each repairing the deficiencies of the other...