Word: directed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence of electricity in animal brains has been known since 1874; variations in the brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...
Attending the same banquet, Harry Truman was more direct. "The Greeks also had a Henry Wallace," said the President, but he thought the man was Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), who deserted Athens for its enemy Sparta, deserted Sparta to return to Athens. He was "the greatest demagogue of all time," said the President. "We are now facing the same danger to this country. ... If imitators of that ancient Greek conqueror want to see its liberties subverted, he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country...
...This direct antithesis between communism and democracy renders prospects for peace "gloomy" but the fact is nonetheless that war no more than appeasement will solve the problem which confronts us. For war would only produce an environment of devastation "in which ideas as virulent as Communism and Fascism flourish...
...Direct attacks in neighboring villages have been made on pestilential water supply, unsanitary garbage disposal, and personal hygiene...
Weld stated last night: "The delegates selected at the coming election will make a tremendous difference to the Student Council and the student body next year. The ideas they bring back from the convention will have a direct effect on the functionings of the Council and will be worth only as much as the delegates the student body elects to send to Madison...