Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the College is nearer normal, there should be a general plea for an honor system, coupled with determination to enforce it on the student level, it might be put gradually into effect. Such a move could have the advantage of creating a healthier attitude toward college courses and exams, but the result also can be disastrous. The few dishonest people around will stay dishonest and make the honor system a farce unless the social pressure favoring it is enormous, and at the present there is no such pressure. An alternative at some schools that ostensibly have no policemen...
...think Hollywood people are as nice and normal," said Mickey Rooney, "as any neighbors you'd find anywhere. . . . They're completely normal, and after all, it's normal to be normal...
...uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...
...last year's sky-high level of about 41.6? a lb., some 32% higher than world prices. By virtue of the present floor under wool, which has kept U.S. prices above world wool prices, the Government is now stuck with 480,000,000 lbs., more than a normal year's supply for the U.S. Estimated cost of the proposed new program to taxpayers: from $35 million to $75 million a year...
...best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that few but the timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt...