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...cortisone on ulcer patients, they reasoned, revealed a second pathway by which emotional stress reaches the stomach: through the pituitary and adrenal glands and their hormones. To test their theory, they gave ACTH to patients whose vagus nerve had been cut, and found that it made their poor stomachs react just as if the vagus nerve had been intact, i.e., the stomachs became overactive, secreted too much of the digestive juices. One patient began to have ulcer pains; at that point, the researchers had to stop...
...Democratic nominee to run against Warren G. Harding, and he doesn't want the Truman foreign policy discussed at all. The Republicans' Robert Taft, who has charged that the Truman Administration's "fatal mistakes" make foreign policy the biggest issue in the campaign, was quick to react. "President Truman," he said, "should certainly get the prize for political effrontery...
...stake, went so far as to suggest that Krock had fallen into a Taft ambush. They put their faith in Ike's words at his final press conference. "If I have friends that have been my friends so long they believe they know how I would act and react under given situations," said Ike, "that's their own business, and I have never attempted to interfere with any man exercising his own privileges as an American citizen." He strongly implied that he would never announce his own politics or his intentions as long as he was commander...
...room permissions here. The Wheaton College Student Government association polled students and faculty there. It concluded from results that there is "no reason why such a change (11 p.m. limits for weekend nights) is not possible." The report added that "the permanency ... depends on the way the men react towards such privileges...
...picture above shows how some Tiger undergraduates react today to a requirement that ended in Cambridge over 60 years ago. Since 1886, Harvard College has had voluntary attendance at both Sunday and daily services. At Princeton, students have been working for years to decrease the requirement to its present amount...