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Generalissimo Gamelin's instinct for caution ("Science and prudence" might be his motto) is certainly greater than Hitler's. And he had something fairly substantial to show for his first 30 days' work. He consolidated enough gains to put his heavy artillery in range of the main West-wall defenses in at least two spots of his own choosing: the Blies Valley (Zweibrücken) and the Lauter Valley sector. He claimed to have surrounded 60 German villages. He had Saarbrikken under control (it was too heavily mined to take frontally), had covered with his artillery most...
...their forebrains. When the forebrains of ordinary, sociable minnows are removed, the fish leave school, become hermits. Strangely enough, "such fish may seem in other respects more effective organisms than fish with intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search of mates again, although they...
Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell then turn about and caution their students against slang, thereby making it pretty clear that they do not know 1939 slang from third base. American English gives students some good instruction on how to write different types of prose, address letters and judge a radio program, but even the nice little boys & girls for whom it was written are likely to wonder how Schoolmarms Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell got so chummy with that old goat, the English language. Sample passage...
...complaint of post-War functional architects in the U. S. has been their lack of opportunity to design churches to look like what they are: auditoria. Chief obstacles have been the clergy's caution and a widespread public conviction that ecclesiastical architecture is divorced from the common clay of other 20th Century buildings, should reflect age-old architectural traditions...
...exact location was not disclosed, but central Asia is thousands of miles farther east than any Neanderthal remains hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...