Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic unit of the nervous system, said Dr. Hoagland, is the neuron or nerve cell. When neurons are stimulated, a wave of electrical energy passes along their interconnecting fibers. When it reaches the "synapses" where the fibers touch those of other nerve cells, it may pass the impulse along. Or it may not. This "yes-or-no" response of the neurons, Dr. Hoagland believes, is the basis of brain operation. Certain calculating machines work the same way, their vacuum tubes or relays responding or not to the electrical impulses that reach 'them...
...final returns were in, Hummon seemed headed for almost as resounding a victory as Ol' Gene had ever managed. He had topped Thompson in the popular vote by 354,000 to 309,000, and piled up a landslide lead of 312 to 98 under Georgia's county unit system (roughly similar to the national electoral college). Governor Thompson promptly agreed to install Hummon in the Governor's Mansion as soon as the formality of the November general election was over; there was no point in waiting until Inauguration Day in January. Said Thompson, a Baptist: "The people...
...Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, recommended that the air and ground forces of the state-controlled National Guard be merged with the federally controlled Organized Reserve Corps into a single, federal reserve arm for each service. In place of the guard, each state would raise its own militia unit, as it did in wartime...
Peaches & Somersaults. To many of the Californians, who clung together like Englishmen in the jungle, London was a strange, provincial place. The men from the Coast bunked together four in a room, hit the chow line as a unit. For dates, they met California girls at Earl's Court, a district halfway between Uxbridge and Southlands College (where the U.S. women's Olympic team was quartered...
...priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...