Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighteen century, students developed the habit of expressing disapproval of the food by throwing it around the room and staging huge class fights. One student was suspended for hitting a professor with a baked potato. If he had missed the professor, it would have been considered part of a normal fight. In 1766, the disapproval took the form of the The Great Butter Rebellion, which was only quelled when the Corporation requested the Royal Governor to read the Overseers' resolutions and enforce them, which fortunately occurred peacefully. Several years later, the Rotton Cabbage Rebellion occurred, which was settled without outside...
...this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
Boston's water supply will not go the way of New York's, according to Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, who last night denied rumors that a water shortage threatens the local area. Bryan added that although the Boston water supply is about six inches below normal now, it will probably return to normal by spring...
Bryan pointed out that in normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by talk of a huge water shortage. Bryan believes that though there is a definite shortage at this time, it is not as pressing as would appear. Winter and spring precipitation should, he says, replenish the low supply...
Some conclusions from the project are already apparent to the staff. "Our work shows an extra-ordinary variability in human beings," Dr. Heath says. "We early gave up the idea that there is such a thing as a normal person...