Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Judge Holtzoff then ordered the trial to begin next week, Thomas' attorney warned that the Congressman had suffered "nervous reaction" just from the doctors' examinations. That, said the judge, seemed perfectly natural under the circumstances...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
...spite of such failings, gramicidin touched off a chain reaction. Dubos announced its discovery in 1939. A group of British researchers heard about it and recalled Alexander Fleming's Penicillium notatum. The substance it secreted is penicillin. Ripples of excitement spread through the world's biological laboratories...
...that time the stands were rabid, and in 22 years of watching Harvard football, I've never heard so (sic) violent spectator reaction,' he said...
...Chain Reaction. A small problem often leads to much bigger ones. For example, the job of streamlining International Harvester's tractors led to designing a distinctive new building (1,125 have been built) in which to sell them...