Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantages of FM broadcasting by WHRB will be more extensive training for personnel, clearer reception in the University...
...movement, which can be detected by electrodes attached to the eyelids. Vertical movements suggest that the dream in progress involves climbing or falling; horizontal, that the dreamer is following the actions of dream figures across a scene. Subjects awakened five minutes after a flurry of eye movements had far clearer recollections of dreams than those allowed a 15-minute lapse. ¶ Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists checked on fellow employees, found that of 135 who never added salt to their food, only one had unexplained high-blood pressure; of 630 who added salt sometimes after tasting food, 43 had the disease...
...TAPE will soon be in use. Ampex Corp., maker of top-quality tape recorders, has developed a new TV tape recorder that does a clearer, more economical job of reproducing TV programs than the kinescope system currently in use, can record an hour-long program on a 14-in. roll of tape. Columbia Broadcasting System has ordered three of the new machines (at $75,000 each), will substitute them for kinescopes this August...
...cross-filing law, California allows no cross-over by the voter in a Presidential primary, so the fight between [Kefauver and Stevenson] in the state will be a strictly Democratic Party showdown. It shapes up today as the pivotal Democratic pre-convention battle, out of which will come a clearer indication of the relative strength of Kefauver and Stevenson than Minnesota has given...
Thus, in free translation by the University of Connecticut's Professor Jaime H. Arjona, runs a story from El Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega...