Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polaroid Facsimile. Photographs can be taken and transmitted by radio for up to 40 miles in five minutes, using a new Army Signal Corps - New York Times facsimile system. A Polaroid Land camera takes and prints a picture in one minute; it is then radioed back in three minutes, redeveloped and reprinted by the Polaroid process in another minute. The system is being studied by the Army for transmitting reconnaissance pictures in wartime, by the weather bureau for gathering hurricane data in peacetime, by newspapers for installation on reporters' and photographers' radio cars...
...candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named his man. It was the signal that ambitious Bourgés-Maunoury had been waiting for. Said he, after 45 minutes with President Coty: "The nation needs a government. Being in Defense, I know...
...words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...
Confident of quick rescue, they gathered together their slim rations (three pieces of chocolate, a bottle of protein and calcium tablets) and salvaged clothing, holed up for several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton...
...temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory."* Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down if the stress signal, e.g., an electric shock, is merely increased in intensity, also if an unwonted time lag is left between the signal and the food that follows, or if signals are simply mixed. A fourth way, and to Dr. Sargant the most important for human analogy, is to wear a dog dowri...