Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise the fact that this flurried arrival departed from the tradition of the British Treasury and the Bank of England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain's financial pants for two and a half centuries had been held up by the stoutest braces. At last the almost omniscient Treasury had made a major mistake in estimating how the world's currency exchanges would react...
...been greatly refined and democratized. Just before birth the father calls in a loud voice to his unborn child to see if it wishes to enter the world. If the answer is no, the midwife injects some liquid into the mother's abdomen, which promptly shrinks to normal size...
...about and plays like another child. Her laughter fills the house and her sense of humor gives us great joy. We make no attempt to urge her to "strive to keep up with others," for we know she is retarded in many ways. We compare her with no other normal child of her age; we are only delighted in self-progress and achievement...
...sentimental pictures about thoroughbreds will naturally be wary of this one about a Southern home steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The Yearling" suffers from none of the normal vices. The inscious, wooded setting is portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began to eat the crops now that he has grown...
...their political terminology was a misfit hand-me-down from the British. The paranoid touchiness in all the Indian factions, but especially in Pakistan's Moslems, he likened to what he called group or "institutional delusions" throughout the world, to be corrected only by "a discipline whereby the normal man can train himself to be something healthier than a normal man, to become an athlete of reality...