Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performs two functions. It collects sounds and it keeps track of the body's posture. Sensations of sound and of balance reach the brain along separate but intimately packed fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic...
Ever since Patricia Maguire fell soundly asleep in February 1932 with sleeping sickness, Chicago reporters have been calling regularly at her house for news (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week they found the young woman sitting up in bed, looking stupidly at a slate. "Pat, raise your right hand," her mother wrote on the slate. Slowly Patricia Maguire raised her right hand. "Raise your index finger." Slowly up went the finger. "Raise two fingers." Slowly she did as she was told...
...Manhattan, on a field frozen hard as slate, the New York Giants played the Chicago Bears for the professional football championship of the U. S. Outscored 10-to-3 at the end of the first half, the Giants shrewdly put on sneakers for the second, put across four touchdowns in the last quarter, gave the Bears their first beating in 32 games...
Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
Rice, unbeaten Southwest Conference leader, kept its slate clean by defeating Texas Arts & Industrial...