Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important evidence was that du Pont lobbyists in Washington had worked hard and fast to block action on the House resolution providing U. S. cooperation in a general arms embargo on warring nations. And the du Fonts, it quickly developed, had a fine working agreement with the great British Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. to divide territories and profits for the sale of military explosives and other chemicals. How effectively this agreement worked was shown by a letter from the du Pont agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed...
...this was very fine but good Fascist morale requires the production of certified heroes. Last week the Fascist Militia moved to immortalize a young militiaman named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista...
...Gesell calls "normative," was to obtain a comprehensive picture of how a normal baby acts in a variety of situations, uniformly created for each child and for the same child at successive periods. What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground...
...apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
...lumber the hardwood forests of the Appalachian hillsides and the Mississippi Valley have a code which, as codes go, is a good one. The mill owners lived happily under it for nearly a year. Among other things it provides for production control, cost protection, hard & fast minimum prices. And for an industry which has no less than 5,800 members in its trade association and code authority, the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, there was surprisingly little chiseling...