Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sample sections diagramed above represent the paths taken by electrical impulses that the heart muscle generates as it contracts and expands. The first three columns show impulses picked up from pairs of electrodes at the extremities (Lead I, wrist to wrist; Lead II, right arm to left leg; Lead III, left arm to left leg); the second three columns from single electrodes over the chest...
...III: The U.S. Intervened. Secretary of State Dulles, who already had sent a note to Turkey expressing "deep concern" over the riots, dispatched his stern appeal to the two NATO allies. "I believe that the unity of the North Atlantic community, which is the basis of our common security, must be restored," said he. The Greeks exploded at the absence of any words of sympathy for the victims of the Turkish riots. "Mr. Dulles placed criminals and victims on the same level," cried Athens' newspaper, Vima, with considerable justice...
...Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family. The Manchester Guardian learnedly explained that the act was passed by the slimmest of majorities in 1772 to control the marriages contracted by the libertine brothers of George III. "Sensible mortals," concluded the Guardian last week, "will doubtless feel that in the 20th century, such matters can safely be left to the head of the royal family without the restrictions of antique acts of Parliament." "Isn't it time," asked Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, "we took...
...builders of Stonehenge III were still barbarians whose chief occupation was herding sheep. But some of their chieftains, whose rather impressive tombs rich by buying had grown by buying the products of Irish bronesmiths and trading them to customers all over Bronze Age Europe...
...morning of Jan. 28, 1945, 2nd Lieut. Jim Weis of the U.S. Army Air Forces scowled bleakly at his barbed-wire confines and remarked to some fellow P.W.s: "Maybe I'm dead and don't know it." For some 10,000 captured Allied airmen in Stalag Luft III. a German prisoner-of-war camp in East Prussia, hell began that night...