Word: directioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acrobatic Anthropologist. Like another outstanding Negro dancer, Katherine Dunham, Pearl, now 27, is a serious student of anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have...
...Direct Action. In Omaha, a customer underestimated Mrs. Nonie Anders, waltzed out of her restaurant without paying his 75? check, whereupon the 61-year-old proprietor picked up her pistol, chased the customer out to his car, conked him with the gun butt, dragged him back in and called the cops...
Following up this discovery, Trueta's investigators found that short-circuiting of the kidney cortex may be produced by many different stimuli. Direct electrical stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure...
Leventhal said that three men, to be taken from members of the Freshman class who showed interest in the now- defunct Red Book, would be chosen by the end of the week to direct the activities of the Register...
...that it would be small. Said National Steel's Weir, "The increased cost for a refrigerator won't be more than a couple of dollars." The American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that a price rise of $6 to $7 a ton in steel would mean a direct increase of $10.50 to $12.25 in the cost of producing the average automobile. At week's end, automakers and other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold the line...