Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free. or negative gravity problem, is quite different. It is bound up with the delicate nerve-sensory system - centered in the canals of the inner ear, and in little muscular pressure points located through the body - that tells man whether he is level, falling, upside down or accelerating. This delicate balance sense is closely connected with the nervous sys tem. If disturbed, it can produce effects ranging from nausea (as any victim of seasickness knows) to incapacitating shock...
Before the flight, biologists removed the inner ear sensory system of one of the mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of the rocket flight: the desensitized mouse clung to his perch, "whereas the normal animal clawed at the air, suggesting disorientation." A subsequent experiment with monkeys "clearly established the fact that the weightless state itself produces no disturbance of circulation in terms of heart rate or arterial and venous blood pressures...
Junior Bernard Flynn overcame a floating inner tube and four other singles oarsmen yesterday afternoon to win the University Singles Championship on the Charles River. He was one of six victors in the finals of the 1955 University Sculling Regatta held over the past two days...
Flynn's victory came despite his head-on collision with an inner tube within the first quarter mile of the mile long race. Although he stopped dead, the House singles champion recovered quickly enough to pass Oxford oarsman Harry Quick 1GBA freshman Bart Thomas, senior Ned Ames, and math instructor Hartley Rogers...
...search for Baruch has meant for Wolfson a search for the connotations of philosophic terms. His method has been to follow out the genealogy of a term in past writers to get at its inner meaning to the philosopher he is studying. From these assembled clues he has built up solutions to complex philosophic problems, while at the same time his method has led him inevitably to wider and wider circles of philosophic inquiry. One thinker has always led him to the next. "You can't isolate," he says, summing up his own experience, "a problem, a person...