Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Rochester (N.Y.) used an oscillograph (electrical impulse recorder) to test the muscles of infantile-paralysis patients. They found that while it is true that the contracted muscles are in spasm, the stretched muscles and other muscles all over the body are also in spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve impulses that prevent involuntary contraction; 3) the paralysis...
...continued with the fleet. A few destroyers lagged to pick up survivors from the Roma. Admiral Bagliria was not among them. The main body of the fleet sailed on. At 8:35 a.m. next day, off Cap Bon, the Italia, the Vittorio Veneto and their lesser flock sighted H.M.S. Warspite, waiting with a British squadron...
...pointed out that OWI's function is to keep the public informed about the war, but that, in his opinion, too much war news is being suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...high-low cycle of heat received by the earth from the sun: 40.8 months.) The major long-run business cycle is one of 54 years; a 54-year rhythm in British wheat prices has been traced back 800 years. On the back of this basic cycle rides a lesser one of nine years. Foundation Director Dewey has arranged his own business affairs in the expectation that there will be a boom until 1947, then a slump hitting bottom about 1951-but he emphasizes that each business must discover the rhythm in its own affairs...
...unexpected move bypassed Jap-held Bairoko Harbor, Vila airfield and lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by four destroyers. U.S. warships struck. One Jap destroyer was probably sunk, another damaged and a third hit. Most of the barges were sunk. Although an estimated 300 Japs managed to get ashore, some 1,000 perished...