Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through its Journal, gave him the following answer: "Man is used to the type of visual change or sensation produced by approaching an object, since his eyes are directed forward. In consequence, many people are affected by dizziness, nausea and vomiting with the eyes open in a fast moving conveyance such as a train. But there is no evidence, rational or experimental, indicating that a person sleeps better or more comfortably in a moving conveyance when the head is directed toward the direction of motion. . . . "The only possible influence on the body that could be affected by the position...
Those who had the privilege of studying with Copey will long remember him as one of the greatest in a justly famous and fast vanishing group of humanists. While remarkably familiar with every nook and cranny of English literature. Copey was not--nor would he claim to be--a scholar in the strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span...
...best defensive team in the National Hockey League, last week skated out to play the third game of the final series for the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Overcautious because they had already lost the first two games, the Maple Leafs started slowly. The Maroons started fast, finished faster. When the game was over, they had the Stanley Cup and the world's championship...
...brain of a normal person, relaxed and with eyes closed, beats eight to 20 times a second and produces ten to 50 millionths of a volt on each beat. On a chart those beats show up as a fast succession of small waves...
When a normal person becomes unconscious from breathing too much nitrogen, faints from low blood pressure, or simply goes to sleep, the fast small waves on the chart are replaced by large slow waves, one to five a second...