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Word: equilibriums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quickly industry could regain its equilibrium depended upon how quickly it could: 1) clear its plants and set up peacetime assembly lines; 2) obtain a steady supply of raw materials; 3) get a firm pricing policy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: Facts & Figures, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...infamous men have been epileptics: St. Paul, Mohammed, Moses, Luther, Loyola, Alexander, Caesar, Peter the Great (see BOOKS), Napoleon and possibly Hitler.-In the Medical Record, Brooklyn's Dr. Edward Podolsky explains why epilepsy may be a spur to greatness. Epileptic fits result from a disturbed electrical equilibrium in the brain. Electrical energy continually piles up in the cortex (brain covering), is discharged at irregular intervals in fits. Many epileptics are nobodies, but the brilliant ones drive themselves like maniacs while the energy piles higher & higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electricity for Epileptics | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Rigorous physical conditioning of females, together with practice in the art of judo and in the use of firearms, might go far to restore to the family an equilibrium of parental control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maedchen in Uniform? | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Australian economist gave an empirical approach to the problems of "Administrative Controls in a Free Economy" during his four lectures here. Demonstrating the complete failure of unregulated private enterprise to provide equilibrium, Copland advocated a series of government controls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copland, at Godkin Lecture, Proposes Program for Full Postwar Employment | 1/30/1945 | See Source »

Detonator. On Sept. 6 Superintendent Johnson had ordered children who were attending public schools outside their own districts to shift back at once. The decree, he explained, was intended to restore the city's numerically unbalanced classrooms to equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to the appointed schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamite in Chicago | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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