Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, one of the marching motormakers suddenly became conspicuous. He was 36-year-old President Errett Lobban Cord of Auburn Automobile Co. and Cord Corp. Abruptly he burst from the slow-moving ranks, raced down the road with unprecedented speed, shouted great tidings of Auburn prosperity...
Even before President Cord's sprint became noticeable, Auburn stock on the New York Stock Exchange had begun to move. Bears short of it became uneasy when from a low of $88½ in December and $60⅜ in November it rose to $100, bounded on through $125, neared $150 in a mad display last week. In the commission houses there was talk of a "technical corner." Speculators pointed to the fact that Auburn has only 187,533 shares outstanding, that probably 90,000 are held by Cord Corp. If a strong bull pool cracked the whip, Auburn bears...
These organs all belong to the vegetative or autonomic (sympathetic plus parasympathetic) nervous system which, so far as life itself goes, is more important than the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The central system controls the body's skeletal movements. When a person throws out his arms as he is about to fall, his brain is working. The muscles involved are striped muscles. (A steak is a slice of striped muscle.) When his stomach churns, smooth muscle is working. (Sausage casing is smooth muscle.) The heart is peculiar in this respect. Its muscle is half way between...
...Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed that adrenalin and allied substances were given off by the adrenal glands. This discovery is termed by scientists an important forward step in elucidating the action of the sympathetic nervous...
Professor Cannon described his conclusive experiment. Using a cat, he severed all nerves connected with the heart, as well as all nerves connected with every organ which produces known hormones. He also cut the upper spinal cord transversely. The only nerves left intact were a few strands running from the spinal cord to the smooth muscle of the lower abdominal region. He then caused the fore part of the animal to struggle, and observed no change in the heart rate. After causing the hind part of the animal to struggle, however, he noticed a slow increase in the heart rate...