Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent faculty will be changed in the least by the new budget, Buck said. Annually the Faculty of Arts and Sciences supports some $1,200,000 worth of permanent appointees. It will continue to make seven or eight new permanent appointments each year and will appoint the normal number of assistant professors...
...certain numbers, and a player who discovers it may profit briefly. But a properly run casino checks the wheels constantly and changes them from table to table just to guard against such innocent larceny. The astonishing thing in Señor Delgado's case was that despite all normal precautions he kept on winning, in seeming defiance of the laws of percentage and average...
...tougher; Panhandle skunks are twice as odorous. Even in the dust-bowl days he bragged that no other place could produce such suffocating dust clouds. According to legend, the Northwest Texas Hospital took Tack's tall boastings so seriously that it ordered beds a foot longer than normal to accommodate Panhandle patients...
Even when a child escapes the worst ravages of polio, he is sometimes left with one leg shorter than the other. Surgeons have long sought some sure method for evening up such legs. The most popular practice has been to arrest growth of the normal leg with staples (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949) until the shortened one has a chance to catch up. This method has been highly successful, but many parents will not permit it ("My child already has one bad leg; for heaven's sake, don't tamper with his good...
...Please forgive this pencil, but if you could send me . . ." From Korea and U S training camps, letters with this sort of opening are streaming into Hollywood again, asking for pinups. The requests are already up 400% over the normal peacetime demand...