Word: inertly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calcium in bones is not an inert, permanent part of their structure, like steel beams in a building. Rather, it is continuously being removed and replaced by the body's normal metabolic processes. So osteoporosis can result from too much calcium being removed too fast, too little being replaced too slowly, or both...
Warts Cured. Hypnosis allegedly cures warts. So does suggestion. Barber reports that the wart count among some New York schoolchildren fell dramatically after their warts were painted with chemically inert dyes identified as effective medication. Barber also discounts feats of strength under hypnosis, such as the ability of a man to make his body so rigid that he can be stretched like a plank between two chairs. "Practically all normally awake persons can remain suspended between two chairs while supported only by the head and ankles," Barber says...
...emotion that cries for more of everything. In Munster, 111., for example, Mrs. Mary Lou Kieswetter heads Project 41, a plan to have "Old Glory flown in front of every home and place of business along U.S. Highway 41 from Upper Michigan to Miami, Fla." Says Mrs. Kieswetter: "The inert majority have got off their duffs and begun to protest in a beautiful, constructive...
...organize 'the college activities' for the reunion-wholesome pauses for intellectual activities in five days of orgiastic drinking. If I didn't do it, someone worse would. If one of those State Street people took over, it would be bland propaganda. They are all too inert to be shaken up-but at least we'll try to excite them a little. You can call it co-optation, or you can call it boring from within...
...simple experiment. They filled one end of a brass-and-Pyrex tube with a mixture of ammonia, methane, ethane and water vapor-all probable ingredients of the earth's early atmosphere. A thin plastic membrane separated the gases from the other end of the tube, which contained chemically inert helium. The Bar-Nuns increased the helium pressure until the membrane broke. This produced a shock wave that swept into the gaseous mixture at high speed, momentarily creating temperatures of several thousand degrees. In seven separate experiments, at least four amino acids were left behind...