Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Downs Sir: In the past few weeks this country has accustomed itself to the fact that we are technologically backward. I assume this will be properly investigated by the usual brass-bottom parties. But we are now faced with the fact that we are so inept and so ineffectual in the matter of public relations that we have advertised ourselves as dolts to the entire world...
Before operating on epilepsy patients, Dr. Penfield, head of Montreal's Neurological Institute, explores the surface of their brains with a fine electrode (usual current: 1-5 volts for 1/500 to 1/200 second). Though fully conscious (only local anesthesia is used for opening the skull), the patient feels no shock, does not even know when the current is applied, for the brain tissue itself is insensitive to pain...
...case started in 1955, when the United Gas Pipeline Co. of Shreveport, La. asked the Federal Power Commission for permission to boost the rates for the 600-plus cities and industries it serves. Since FPC raised no objections during the usual six months' waiting period, United raised its rates. But then the city of Memphis, one of the cities that was hit by the raise, appealed to the federal court. The court held that United's increase was invalid because the company failed to get the consent of its customers. The court ordered United to return the millions...
...syringe has been developed by California's Deemer-Howard Associates for feeding solids and cereals to infants. Consisting of a transparent plastic tube with a plunger on one end that pushes food through to a nipple on the other end. the Infa-Feeder is designed to eliminate the usual messiness associated with infant feeding time. But it will probably not outsmart babies really determined to plaster their faces with food. Price...
Stanley netted 20, on 9 for 15, and was invincible under the boards. Compensating for his lack of weight with aggressive play sparked by elbows flying in all directions, he kept the Crimson from its usual domination of the boards. The Jumbos won the battle of the rebounds...