Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protective, defensive role of pain was scientifically shot to smithereens," Soresi declares, "by . . . [Herbert S.] Gasser when he determined . . . the speed at which the various fibers transmit impulses and proved that the alleged pain fibers are among the slowest, if not actually the slowest." Nature, says Soresi, could not have been so inept as to give warning duty to its slowest couriers...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Neurophysiologist Gasser showed that pain is transmitted along low, medium-and high-speed fibers...
Tests had shown that the officers averaged only 292 words a minute and understood only 83.2% of what they read at that speed. After a six weeks' course at the Pentagon's Reading Improvement Laboratory, their speed winged upward, though their comprehension dipped a bit to 79-3%- One lieutenant colonel had boosted his score from 225 words a minute to 516; a captain had jumped from 584 to 1,034, practically a page at a glance. Average progress: 292 to 488 w.p.m...
Like a dervish whirling at three different speeds at once, the U.S. record industry has begun to come apart at the seams. Its head. RCA Victor, has gone flying off at 45 r.p.m.; its right arm, Columbia Records, has spun away at 33½-r.p.m. The body of the industry, including a good part of the Victor and Columbia product, has continued to turn at 78 r.p.m. But one by one, other record companies have been dragged after the two big innovators. Last week Capitol Records, which had already begun to press at the 45 speed on Victortype, seven-inch...
...exorcise the speed demon, top executives of RCA Victor, Columbia and Decca have been huddling in quiet meetings. Last week there was still no agreement. Until the industry pulled itself together, record fans had two sensible alternatives : postpone buying or buy a turntable that plays all three speeds. There are about ten on the market, ranging in price from $15 to more than...