Word: transient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skin responds to emotion as much as the stomach or heart. On a skittish skin some emotional effects (such as blushing) are transient, others may become chronic...
Instruments of this type are among the fastest recording devices know to the engineering sciences. Among the researches under way at the present time are studies of the effect of humidity on high-voltage discharges under steady and transient conditions, high pressure arcs, and the development of new applications for power rectifiers and inverters. These researches have already led to the publication of a number of important technical contributions...
...Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with the breath as simple carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas and water (H 2 O) vapor...
...greatest movements which the Christian Church has to face, cried the opening preacher, liberal Bishop Parsons (and a persistent stadium echo which parroted him, always a phrase behind), are the Totalitarian State, "a transient affair," and the rise of the underprivileged classes, "born of the gospel of Christ.'' That the latter has often gone astray. said the Bishop, should not blind Christians to the fact of the Kingdom of God "... a free fellowship of the children of God ... in [which] every child of God has worth which transcends any economic order. He is not a mere...
...define very pronouncedly my attitude as in opposition to any form of government which is not based on law and justice. But in all that I say and do I will nevertheless be guided by the sincere love of my country which has nothing to do with any transient form of government it may have...