Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinemaddicts who recover from their initial shock at this innovation will be relieved to find that: 1) If, as Franklin Roosevelt says, it is inadequate for national defense, his favorite branch of the service is still amply capable of giving taxpayers their money's worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy...
Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...
...there is also a practical problem," he continued, "calling for the development of new, practical means of enforcing traditional values of individual freedom to withstand extraordinary conditions of shock and conflict, social irritability, the decadence of past imagery as to satisfactory social forms, and similar evidences of social discontent...
...animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness...
Irrespective of their individual hearing abilities, dogs learn most quickly how to avoid shock and guinea pigs are slowest. The scientist found one genius of a guinea pig, however, which learned what to do after only one experience...