Word: filtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there was hope that the London conferences had not stalled. Reports of the armistice terms began to filter out before the official announcement. The general outline of the terms, as they were reported...
...landed in a pear tree, a rather good shock absorber. But the trouble was I didn't filter on through to the ground; instead I dangled about three feet above ground unable to swing far enough to touch anything...
...Rats were very fertile when they lived in a cage enclosed by a yellow light filter. Behind a blue filter, they had no young...
...self-hypnosis. In treating neurotics, the psychologist helps patients relieve themselves by making a clean breast, under hypnosis, of their unconscious fears and troubles. In What Is Hypnosis Salter offers a breath-taking project: teaching autohypnosis to soldiers. Says he: "Simple mass procedures applied to soldiers could quickly filter out one of five or at worst one of eight who can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anesthetized soldiers going into battle...
...pictures will be examined by Billy Rose and John Powers, and the results of the examination will filter back to Cambridge in time for the dance at Kirkland House. The winner of the contest will become the leader of the ROTC for a day, while the runner-ups will be regimental sub-commanders as a consolation prize...