Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Radio. The nerve cells are laced together, like the vacuum tubes inside a radio, by slender, wirelike fibers (neurofibrils). Some cells have only two fibers; others have several hundred. Like the cells, the fibers are electrically charged...
Measured in electrical engineering terms, the neurons are only one-thousandth as fast as vacuum tube relays, but they require much less space and much less power. Professor McCulloch estimated that if a calculating machine had only 10 million vacuum tubes (the brain has about 10 billion neurons), it would take the power of Niagara Falls to operate it and the Niagara River to keep it from overheating. The brain is cooled by a comparatively small river of blood. When awake and in full operation, it raises the temperature of a pint of circulating blood one-half degree a minute...
Aside from Mr. Whorf, the cast includes other notables such as Philip Bourneuf, Frances Reid, Polly Rowles, and Grace Coppin. The performances of Mr. Bourneuf and Miss Coppin seem to stand up best in the vacuum that follows Mr. Whorf's whirlwind...
...tomorrow could, without loss, declare Puerto Rico a nation apart and the most notable political novelty would be a change in my title . . . but there could be economic changes that would be highly damaging . . . A political status cannot exist in an economic vacuum...
...proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...