Word: equilibriums
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...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...
...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...
...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...
Married and divorced from 1) a Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...
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...