Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Between the college and the preparatory school, modern educational methods have driven a wedge that has disrupted the continuity of the normal intellectual development of the student. The varying specific needs of individual secondary schools and colleges have necessitated the establishment of standardized means of judging entrants. Unfortunately this blanket characterization is neither sufficiently elastic or authentic to be considered a reliable criterion. The result of this practice has been that the preparatory school has degenerated into a few years of intense cramming for College Entrance Board Examinations while the college is left to all in the deficiencies that have...
...this system to be fair and practical every effort must be made to place the criminal as gradually as possible in the routine of a normal human being. In the countries where the indeterminate sentence and segregation are the penal practise, work is provided for all prisoners, who are paid the usual rates for jobs accomplished. In America indolence is the rule in many prisons and the cause of much disorder, owing to trade union, jealousy of free prison labor. But work under normal wages would obviate this objection as well as making less abrupt the prisoner's release from...
...extreme narrowness of some otherwise normal minds is both amazing and amusing. But I will wager that these same injured martyrs nearly burned the pages getting to the article to read it. Reminds one of the Senate book censoring comedy-farce...
Short and stocky, he has dark features like an Indian's. This resemblance is heightened by his straight black hair, now greying on the edges, which, parted in the middle, falls heavily over each temple. His face is lined, his mouth heavy. His bright unseeing eyes look normal. His clothes are dark and rustic; he wears white wash ties...
Last fortnight the Medical Association of Vienna sat in their chambers, listened to Professor Stephan Jellinek, electropathologist, and Theodore Scheiber, electrical engineer, tell how an apparatus invented by them might make the answer yes. Their invention replaces normal acoustic hearing with electrical hearing, not dependent upon the functions of the outer or middle...