Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Infant A was a normal breast-fed baby cared for only by her mother. She developed splendidly until five months of age, at which time the mother was suddenly called away from home. The infant was left in charge of an aunt, who had been given the most minute instructions as to her care. The pediatrician told the aunt not to take the child from her crib (to preserve the child's excellent routine). By the end of the first week the child was found rolling violently from side to side, and had begun to scratch her face. She became...
...second exposure to the average machine, the commission estimated, a child might get as much as ten roentgens of radiation. "That's just ten too many for a useless exposure," said Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger, District health officer. For normal feet, the authorities considered the machines useless; for abnormal feet they may still be used-by a licensed doctor...
Girls and young women from 15 to 29 showed a normal flow of 20 mm. on the filter paper scale, the two doctors report in. the current Archives of Ophthalmology. Less than two-thirds of this flow (13 mm.) was normal for youths and young men from 16 to 29. The doctors squeezed out two more drops of information: from ages 30 to 60, men & women seem to have about the same capacity for tears; beyond 60, women seem to be slightly drier-eyed than...
...reason for a probable decline in employment and production during the transition, Slichter said, is a current above normal rate of investment that is likely to drop...
...materially affect its period of revolution. And if the sun did literally "stand still upon Gibeon"-i.e., if the earth suddenly stopped turning-no human being would have lived to tell about it. Every loose object on earth, including Joshua, the oceans and the atmosphere, would have continued the normal rotating movement, and thus taken off toward the east faster than the speed of sound. Velikovsky seems to be aware of some of these difficulties. His reply: the laws of physics may have to be changed to fit his mythological theory...