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...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...
...treacherous to Leninism, is actually the application of the principles of Leninism to an entirely new situation. . . . The old Soviet plan may be said to have embraced concepts of an extensive revolution, or rather of a series of revolutions: extensive because it was expected that all over the globe irregular, chaotic explosions would occur. . . . What Stalin has done with the old concept has not been to abolish the revolutionary program: rather he has transformed the idea of an extensive revolution into one of an intensive revolution. Of course, the old system of capitalist economy and capitalist policy, he said...
There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
...Tuesday Company One's Gray shut out the Company Three nine 6 to 0 in a one sided five-inning battle, while on the previous Thursday in a Fresh inter-House contest Smith rolled over Standish 5 to 3 behind the able pitching of Hutchins. Freshman softball has been irregular due to a light turnout...
...BOOKS), Napoleon and possibly Hitler.-In the Medical Record, Brooklyn's Dr. Edward Podolsky explains why epilepsy may be a spur to greatness. Epileptic fits result from a disturbed electrical equilibrium in the brain. Electrical energy continually piles up in the cortex (brain covering), is discharged at irregular intervals in fits. Many epileptics are nobodies, but the brilliant ones drive themselves like maniacs while the energy piles higher & higher...