Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

They were put on control diets to determine as accurately as possible, the normal cholesterol level of their blood.

Nakamura ( '58 ), Verloop ( '48 ), Marchand, Gilroy and Watson ( '50 ), Von Hayek ( '53 ), and Tobin ( '52 ) have all claimed their normal but relatively nonfunctional existence in the human being.

The cells of the erythroid, myeloid, and megakaryocytic series were normal except for their numbers.

Those who responded with an arm-elevation in the naive state did not change their reaction when told that there were some normal people who did not react in this fashion.

Moreover, when the experimenter did inform those subjects that there were some normal people who did not have their arm rise once they relaxed, the Kohnstamm-positive subjects were uninfluenced in their subsequent reactions to the Kohnstamm situation.

A suggestion Hypothesis also seems inadequate as an explanation for those who shifted their reactions after they were informed of the possibilities of `` normal '' reactions different from those which they gave.

The change in perceptions by some of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects, after they had been informed of the possibilities of normal reactions, suggests that their constriction and guardedness is associated with their general mode of responding to strange or unknown situations.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

It's perfectly normal for babies to suck their thumbs, and no mother need worry if a child continues this habit until he is two or three years old.

This formula supplies an easy method to find the angle between two planes ( or curved surfaces ) from their normal vectors and between skew lines from their vector equations.

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This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

Although hemosporidians and piroplasmids have normal triplets of microtubules in their basal bodies and coccidians and gregarines have 9 singlets.

Many primate and bear species will adopt a bipedal gait in order to reach food or explore their environment.

Fashionable young men of the upper classes would affect a walk with their right hand held fast to the base of their spines, and with a slight lean forward at the waist and a very slight twist toward the right with the left shoulder, allowing the left hand to swing free with the gait.

Penguins are popular around the world, primarily for their unusually upright, waddling gait and ( compared to other birds ) lack of fear of humans.

Nicholas Humphrey and John Skoyles from the London School of Economics and Roger Keynes from Cambridge University have suggested that their gait is due to two rare phenomena coming together.

Unrestrained animals will typically move at the optimum speed for their gait to minimize energy cost.

* Buxton limp, a 19th century slang term for the common type of gait seen on various of the invalids limping around the town whilst their taking the waters in Buxton

In 1874, Warde-Aldam noted that "... the people now call them ' Tom Puddings ' from their wobbling gait.

They are distinguished by their zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a prehensile tail, crests or horns on their distinctively shaped heads, and the ability of some to change color.

As its prevalence increased, the Manchus, wanting to emulate the particular gait that bound feet necessitated, invented their own type of shoe that caused them to walk in a similar swaying manner.

Seppalas are known for their extremely smooth and well-coordinated gait and for the consistency and strength with which they pull in harness.

In the field, the relationship between Choughs and Apostlebirds is immediately apparent: both species are highly social, spend much of their time foraging through leaf litter with a very distinctive gait, calling to one another almost constantly, and both species respond to a human interloper by flying heavily to a nearby tree, where they wait for the disturbance to pass, often perching close together in twos and threes and allopreening.

Riders who try to pull their horses into a shortened gait ( riding " front-to-back "), rather than contain the energy coming from the hindquarters ( riding " back-to-front "), will produce a shortened stride, but the horse will continue to carry his weight on his front end, and will simply have stiff, unathletic movement.

Examples include advanced speech-to-text programs ( so that phone conversations can be monitored en-masse by a computer, instead of requiring human operators to listen to them ), social network analysis software to monitor groups of people and their interactions with each other, and " Human identification at a distance " software which allows computers to identify people on surveillance cameras by their facial features and gait ( the way they walk ).

While hunting on the ground, almost entirely for large insects, their gait can appear awkward but they are often successful in pinning down several insects per day.

Individuals with the disorder may have trouble releasing their grip on objects or may have difficulty rising from a sitting position and a stiff, awkward gait.

As the animals grow and their surface area to volume ratio drops, the fins are resized and repositioned to maximize gait efficiency.

In this way it is possible to investigate the activation times of muscles and, to some degree, the magnitude of their activation — thereby assessing their contribution to gait.

More of an agricultural nation, they have relied on their warriors only for defense and for survival in the endless wars of the plains.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The only important differences from that standpoint, between the two Constitutions, lies in their Preambles.

Apart from the categorical imperative they derive from the metaphysics of the orgasm, the only affirmation they are capable of making is that art is their only refuge.

they will trust only their physical sensations, the wisdom of the body, the holy promptings of the unconscious.

In Plato's judgment, the arts play a meaningful role in society only in the education of the young, prior to the full development of their intellectual powers.

They move only in accordance with what is in their natures.

She has shared her husband's greatness, but only within the confines of their home ; ;

New Nations, and others struggling with the problems of development, will progress only -- regardless of any outside help -- if they demonstrate faith in their own destiny and use their own resources to fulfill it.

As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.