Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 1930, on an impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
...prone position bed will also reduce blackouts. When an airplane pulls out of a dive or makes a sharp turn, the pilot's weight increases because of centrifugal force: if he is sitting the blood pulls into the lower part of his body, leaving his brain without proper blood supply...
Double Effort. To build up their reserves and beat the shortage, the utility men were well into a $5 billion expansion program, the biggest in their history. Example: California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
Said Charles E. Merrill, the directing partner who runs the firm: "The financial industry has its roots deep in every part of the nation. America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots* where it should be owned and not in some mythical 'Wall Street...
Koestler then goes on to examine the nature of weeping. Here, with the aid of more diagrams and excursions into "neurohormonal excitation," he succeeds in proving that weeping expresses the frustration of self-transcendence-a human tendency to be "aware of the self as part of a higher functional whole...