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Some people might not agree with these opinions, but technically, The Freeman is well-written and consistent. It sees itself as presenting not capsulated thought, but stimuli to independent thinking...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/9/1951 | See Source »

...Americans were simply engaged in history's biggest vacation travel spree. Sixty million U.S. citizens-moved by no stronger stimuli than the slam of the schoolhouse door, the rustle of a travel folder and the feel of the hot summer sun -were going somewhere, many of them half way around the world, before the summer was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Gypsies | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...guinea pigs had read into Krieg's cautiously worded study a promise that was not there-i.e., the prospect of an immediate cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Horizons | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Revere donation was a part of a gift to the Department of Legal Medicine from the Massachusetts Racing Association, which is made up of two greyhound and two horse racing tracks. The money is being used "for research into the detection of stimuli and sedatives in animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Received Odd Gifts Last Year for Odd Studies of Odd Things | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...yesterday's reading, Spender first spoke briefly on the factors influencing his generation. He said that the chief stimuli on such poets as Auden, McNeice, and himself were the economic depression and the challenge of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spender to Speak In Dunster Forum | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

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