Word: possession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is that most women have no idea that they possess a muscle called pubococcygeus, let alone know how to strengthen it. At his Perineometer Clinic at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Kegel has developed an answer to that problem: a device (approved by the A.M.A.) called the Perineometer. Essentially a pressure-registering gauge, it consists of a compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus...
Destruction of the "I." Above all, like all mystics, she hoped to transcend self. "We possess nothing in this world-for chance may deprive us of everything-except the power to say 'I.' It is that which has to be offered up to God, that is to say, destroyed." In common with other mystics, Simone Weil skirts the dilemma of how a totally effaced self can remain sentient enough to experience the ineffable joy of its oneness with God, in the rare event that it should be achieved. Simone Weil's own most telling religious experience...
Said the Episcopal bishops: "Remember that in the Christian tradition, government, while it can be abused, is a divine ordinance . . . With all its inadequacies and imperfections, we believe that Christians are called to give their fullest support to the United Nations, the only semblance of world government we possess . . . We can support President Eisenhower and the decision of our Church tak en in convention after convention pledging full support to the United Nations...
...situation. Four delegates and one alternate were authorized to attend the national convention. One delegate (who left before the close of the convention) and the alternate managed to attend. Then, in accepting NSA for another year the Council refused to take full advantage of the information these people should possess, and instead chose to accept as the basis for its action a report which gave no mention to the policy decisions made at the congress, support for which Harvard's membership implies...
...concept should be extended to those seniors of high scholastic standing (probably Groups I and II), who satisfy their Departments that they possess the intellectual ability and maturity to pursue an independent program of education. And, of course, the program must be voluntary, for not all who meet the formal requirements will be willing not only to study, but to plan what they study...