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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great problem at Electronics school is not one of frequencies, oscillators or impedance. Rather it is the simple process of relaxation. "How can I relax?" asks the study-weary student, and Dr. Yeoman Brill comes pulling to the rescue with a few pertinent, though slightly irrational suggestions...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

Psychologically, you have now unburdened your irate subconscious to a point where you can relax sans remorse. So what else is there to do but to sleep on, Macbeth, 0800, 0900, 1000--what difference does it make, your core-free conscience questions...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

During the bitter-end battle over the withholding tax, many a financial observer nibbled his nails, brooding over the effect of the tax on war-bond sales, retail trade, family budgets. Last week, after three weeks of taxing, the first straws were fluttering in. Nail-nibblers could relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: First Straws | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...exhaust pipes, is circulated through the wings's leading edges, keeps them at 60°F, no matter how far below zero the outside temperature goes. Satisfactory tests in far-northern climates lead engineers to hope that the long search is finished. If so, the U.S. can relax about what was once the No. 1 peril of winter flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wing Anti-Icer | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Unless there was something inside, the stomach walls touched each other.) Between times, contractions were rare, slow and gentle. The stomach could be made to start work in the midst of a rest period by feeding it solids (e.g., a bouillon cube); it could be made to relax in the middle of work by feeding it liquids. > Tom's stomach secreted juice continuously, about 8 to 15 cc. an hour even while resting. (This contradicts a conclusion William Beaumont drew in 1833 from his famous experiments on Alexis St. Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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