Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal state, a nerve cell is like an electrical relay waiting for a signal to send it into action. When the signal (a pulse of energy from another neuron) arrives, the cell "fires." An electrical disturbance starts at its center and travels outward along all its fibers. When the pulse reaches the end of a fiber and touches a fiber of another cell, it may or may not "fire" that cell, too. This selective action is the basis of the brain's operation...
...Idealist. Mao wanted knowledge. He read advertisements of newly opened schools. In turn he enrolled in a police school, a soapmaking school, a law school, a commercial school, an economics school. He finally wound up in the Hunan Normal School where he hoped to be trained as a teacher. He read translations of Adam Smith, Darwin, Rousseau, Spencer. Says Mao: "I was then an idealist...
Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
...expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always told just what is going on, just what will happen next, and is assured that it is all normal. One patient, who later had a baby while unconscious, wrote regretfully: "When I regained conscious ness and was told that I had a son, I remember feeling cheated, having to be informed just as if I hadn't been present ... I couldn't help looking...
...three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic route." Damon pointed out that none of the three lines lost money on the route last year despite travel restrictions. "Barring an atomic war," said he, "we ought to be able to support more than three carriers as times get more normal...