Word: heart
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...hygiene and public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental contributions are origin of the red corpuscles of the blood, degeneration and regeneration of the nerve fibres, mechanism of sleep, relation of the inorganic salts of the blood to the heart beat, coagulation of blood, proteins of blood serum...
...Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that...
Both these systems have obvious advantages and disadvantages. If you are a small country banker who does not want to be swallowed up by a large bank, you will probably see that a chain bank remains a local bank with the interests of its neighborhood at heart; that branch banking is likely to result in financial monopoly; that incompetence or dishonesty in a few high places can ruin a whole branch banking system. If you are a large city banker wishing to expand, you will very likely see that a branch bank can be of more assistance in time...
...dictionary do readers of average U. S. newspapers need for such journalistic jargon as sugar daddy, love nest, heart balm, torch murder. But last week the epigrammarians who write U. S. head lines were confronted by a phrase which even they could not grasp without assistance...
...linear distance of the Spokane-New York-Spokane shuttle is 7,200 miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York...