Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normal blood pressure for a man of Mayor Walker...
Mankind is on the threshold of change, evidenced by growing unrest. To suppress the unrest, the rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means...
...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...
...normal undergraduate, then, the all-mighty and non-existent average man, somewhat immature, frankly uninterested in books and their offerings, Yale does and pretends to be very little intellectually. That a university B. A. or Ph. B. degree is of purely social significance is generally recognized. But here too it must be realized that Yale, contrary to the practice of many of her contemporaries, at least provides the outline of a liberal education that does not sink to the fantastic absurdities of salesmanship and, to borrow from Flexner, ad hoc courses. Yale standards are such that the feels content...
...would have oversize offspring. But just a year ago Dr. James Knight Quigley, Rochester, N. Y. specialist in obstetrics & gynecology, presented good evidence that the old supposition is not true. Babies of such women averaged, in his series of births, 7 Ib. 8½ oz., which is about normal...