Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crescent Moon that President Chiang Kaishek, after conquering all China, has not yet kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored in a $5,000,000 marble tomb on the Purple Mountain (TIME, June...
Sleep is on a level with the body's vegetative reflex functions, according to Switzerland's Walter R. Hess. It is the consequence of a state of excitation of certain portions of the brain. Those portions lie along the same brain strata from which the liver, stomach, etc., are influenced...
...work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that the reappearance of a stimulus causes the old response. Sight of a milk bottle makes the baby suck his lips. Sleep, he considers, is the result of inhibitions keeping stimuli from overworking the brain or causing...
...Certain it is that the branch banking advocates will try to have the law modified to permit branch banking throughout the country. If they succeed, it is certain that some of the chains now being created will be converted into branch banking systems. But whether chains or branches eventually come out on top, the developments in the Northwest last week show clearly the tendency of modern banking not only to step outside of municipal boundaries, but to cross state lines. That was where last week's wind was blowing...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...