Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall admits that the reasons for one person's specific fear of snakes, another's of high places, another's of germs may well be due to environmental conditioning. But he believes that such conditioning simply controls the direction of emotional response, that the basic amount of emotionality is inherited. The researches which have led him to this opinion have been conducted by him and his co-workers on rats...
...Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
...Ballinger, Texas, Mrs. Maria Garcia, 30, announced that she has gained about three pounds a day every day since Christmas, although she eats a normal amount. Now 400 Ibs., Mrs. Garcia declared that she could not stand on her feet for more than a minute, begged doctors to do something...
This would amount to putting Social Security largely on a collect-as-you-pay basis. Henry Morgenthau warned that the change may well mean higher payroll taxes than those now planned to peak at 3% each on employes and employers in 1949. To even matters up he took another suggestion of the Advisory Council, advised that at some future date the U. S. Government should share the burden with employers and employes; that is, meet part of the expense by indirect rather than direct taxes on prospective beneficiaries...
...assistants, Dr. John Raymond Johnson and Miss Marjory Metcalf Taylor, persuaded six men and four women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces...