Word: normality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy young woman, 5 ft. i in. tall, 120 lbs. in weight At athletics she does not lose her breath as quickly as do other girls. She can hold a singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly than normal, she breathes more deeply. The average lung after a very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts...
Ships. Though U. S. shipping is below normal, two services are noteworthy: United Fruit, most potent and most peaceful colonizer in the Caribbean; Dollar Line, only round-the-world service on a regular bi-weekly schedule...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week showed the perfectly normal reaction of a U. S. statesman who has been called "unfriendly." He insisted that he was friendly, that he had acted from the friendliest possible motives in reminding Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply...
Among the more important of these activities are researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...muscles. See Mr. Lunt in the third act of "Meteor" and he seems on the verge of middle years, with his face lined by the lines of egocentricity. Notice him at the curtain call, when he is out of the character of Raphael Lord, and he seems young and normal and entirely unlined...