Word: governing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thought, according to this Crile theory, is a manifestation of short-wave radiation with the brain as the commanding centre of the body's electrical energy. The thyroid and adrenal glands govern the rate of radiation in the body. The adrenal glands produce the short, sudden energy of an outburst of temper, anger or rage. The thyroid gland controls the steady, long-time radiation necessary to the body's growth and performance. "Freed electrons charge up the cells; charged up cells cause muscle tone or muscle energy in nerve cells, such as the brain. Thus emotional and nerve...
...Fellows may be appointed to an additional term of three years, but no man may be appointed for more than two terms. No academic work done by the Fellows may be counted towards a degree. A board of Senior Fellows composed of the President and members of the Faculty govern and advise the Junior Fellows. The Society is operated on the interest of a fund of $1,000,000 given specifically for the purpose by "two anonymous donors...
...autonomous State, but a State in which only the heads of land-owning families could vote. No man could vote whose father was still living, and Andorran shepherds and smugglers (leading industries) are almost indestructible. Faced by the menacing crowd of vote-seekers last week, the Andorran Councillors-who govern with "advice" from the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the Government of France-suddenly discovered that there was no written law denying sons a vote. Universal male suffrage was decreed...
Appalled by the growing tide of world resentment against the Hitlerites and a Germany that could permit them to govern, realizing what desperate harm this was doing the nation's industry, Baron von Neurath and Vice Chancellor von Papen fought for hours against the proclamation of Adolf Hitler's Jewish boycott. In the end they rushed to old President von Hindenburg. Baron von Neurath offered his resignation, was finally persuaded to withdraw it. Old Paul agreed absolutely with his two Nationalist ministers and added a private complaint of his own : he had just learned that his name...
International Aircraft & Airways, founded in 1935 by an Englishman, a Russian and an American, had an ambitious idea behind it: world transport must govern the world. As the power of I. A. & A. grew, transcending governments, the idea became a fact, and for 50 years the world lived under an international pax aeronautica. Real and acknowledged world rulers of those days were the twelve Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition...