Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...
However, the city must first obtain state permission for the new traffic sign. This will involve a special city traffic count at the corner. The state will check the survey before granting permission for the sign. Tierney refused to speculate how long this process would take...
...Girard case-from the hard-fought U.S. decision to turn Girard over to Japan for trial to the final Japanese verdict-was in fact a big victory for law and its due process. The U.S.'s worldwide system of status-of-forces agreements recognizes that U.S. servicemen stationed in friendly nations must be subject to local law for crimes that violate local law and have nothing to do with military duty. Far from being an abandonment of the serviceman, the procedure is a recognition that the U.S. has far more to offer the free world than strength of arms...
...facts of the situation seem fairly clear: the NAACP is not a subversive organization. It has long since taken the precaution of banning communists from membership and avoiding cooperation with communists. Its "subversion" consists of aid to citizens who wish to bring cases to court, a process which could undermine only those institutions whose existence is contrary to the guarantees of the constitution...
...tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly $500 million in new capital has been invested in Sicily. In the process, Sicily's gross income last year soared 20% to $857 million, v. only 8% increase for the rest of Italy...