Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China? Not to an all-Communist government, he said emphatically. But Hoffman said he would recommend aid to a coalition which represented all the people: "If a [Chinese coalition] government were set up that gave the hope that conditions would exist which would permit continuation of free institutions, I think our government would be willing to accept a recommendation of continued...
Apparently Houston needs and likes and can keep its businessman-showman mayor. "I ought to quit," Holcombe said after last week's election. "I'm at my highest peak ever. You can't stay there, but I don't think there's much chance of my quitting. I love this...
...agreed to conduct the Christmas service but I didn't want to stay. I wanted no part of society people who were looking for someone to say sweet things to them on Sunday. I know now that I misjudged them, but at that time I didn't think they meant business-that it was just a fad they'd tire...
Modern control mechanisms think much better than that. Gathering information from delicate senses (strain gauges, voltmeters, photosensitive tubes), they act upon it more quickly and accurately than human beings can. They never sleep or get sick or drunk or tired. If such mechanisms are properly designed, they make no mistakes...
...brain are believed to be caused by circulating memories which have got out of hand. Memory impulses (of worry or fear) go round & round, refusing to be suppressed. They invade other neuron circuits and eventually occupy so much nerve tissue that the brain, absorbed in its worry, can think of nothing else...