Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairbanks' gadget, which consists chiefly of a microphone, a tape-recorder and a playback amplifier, delays the reports on their way to the brain. Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay, Dr. Fairbanks can lengthen this interval as much as he wants to. He can also make the sounds from the amplifier so loud that they drown out the sounds that reach the brain through the normal channels...
...very understanding," Vag whispered, Leaning over the counter. And in a normal voice, he asked "Shall we dance...
...world. A few big official parties, such as the inaugural ball which had been planned in honor of South Carolina's Governor-elect Jimmy Byrnes, were canceled. New Yorkers began the wildest scramble for new automobiles which car dealers had ever seen-one Nash dealer with a normal Saturday sale of five cars got rid of 26 in a few wild hours. Chester Thurston, a citizen of Albuquerque, proudly announced that he had just finished construction of a combination fruit cellar and atomic refuge with a roof of 24-in. reinforced concrete. But, in general, the noisy placidity...
Explained President Modlin: "It is impossible for a student to play football, spend sufficient time in study to make satisfactory grades and, at the same time, work in a job at normal wages to pay his room & board. There simply is not enough time in a school year to do so, even if a sufficient number of jobs were available...
...nearly two years Surgeon Berman had been busy fitting laboratory dogs with new gullets made of the same light, pliable plastic (polyethylene) found in drugstores as bottles for deodorant sprays. They worked fine. Within three days after the operations, Dr. Berman's dogs were wolfing down normal meals. Later examinations showed the surgeon that tissue and some mucous membrane had grown up along the outer walls of the plastic tubes, giving the dogs what amounted to new esophagi...