Word: normal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...barred because she professed Socialism. Returning to Rome, she became directrix of the new Scuola Magistrate Ortofrenica (state institution for feeble-minded). Here was formulated the nucleus of what most pedagogs now know as the Montessori Plan. So adept did her backward children become that they outstripped conventionally-trained, normal children in public school examinations...
...favor the enterprise, influential Italians poured gold and good advice upon the Casa del Bambini. It was here, after 13 years of germination, that the Montessori Plan first came to full fruition. The results of Dottoressa's clinical experience with dull children were to be objectively applied to normal ones...
...schedule, which is definite but not complete listing seven concerts at present is as follows: February 14, joint concert with the State Normal School Girl's Glee Club, Salem; 'February 26, Milton Town Hall; March 5, Harvard Club; March 7, Harvard Union; March 9, Exeter; March 14, Milton Club; April 4, New Bedford. Concerts in Concord, Swampscott, and Winchester also are being contemplated and plans for next year's Christmas trip are being undertaken. The program for the first few concerts of the spring season will be essentially the same as that used in the concerts given during the recent...
...public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind of extraordinary power and penetration focussing itself, in the manner which is its normal lifetime habit, on the work of analyzing the problem in a scientific spirit, identifying the forces that make for peace and those that make for war, and estimating how the former may be so stimulated and directed as to prevail over the latter--in short, how to bring it about that...
...degeneration and to hardening of the arteries. The high tension represents considerable wear and tear on the blood vessels. The smaller arteries suffer the most because of their delicate structure. Although the walls of the arteries become thicker with increasing blood pressure, they have less resistance than the normal elastic vessels...