Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just when a motorist steps on the accelerator the green light changes to red, so that his right foot must jump for the brake. Soon most motorists develop what Dr. Fabing calls an "anxiety neurosis in miniature," mainly centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects. On himself, Dr. Fabing noted "a quickening of my pulse by 25 beats ... a pilomotor [hair-on-end] response on my forearms, a dryness of the mouth, a sudden...
...cuneiform" means wedge-shaped) is a direct descendant of picture-writing, in which the symbols are so formalized and simplified that they are unrecognizable as representations of real objects. When symbols were assigned for phonetic syllables, the representation of abstract ideas became possible. The Babylonians realized that they could develop an al-phabet-that is, a set of symbols each of which would stand for a single consonant or vowel-but they resisted the innovation for the same reason that moderns resist simplified spelling...
...were still off about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks of the Federal Reserve System shrank for the fifth week in succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes...
Questioned on the problem of propaganda, Goldstein felt that modern advertising had by playing on the fears and hopes of the buying public increased the number of hypochondriacs, and that it was up to education to develop a resistance to propaganda...
William's palace is today the nucleus of Britain's National Physical Laboratories, an analogue of the Bureau of Standards in the U. S. Comprising nearly 30 buildings scattered over 50 acres, the Teddington laboratories check weights and measures, test and develop new materials for industry. It was there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg...