Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When it is working too hard, the nerve causes the stomach to secrete too much acid, contract too energetically and spill its contents too fast-perhaps within an hour. The acid irritates an old ulcer or starts a new one. Cutting the vagus nerve is one surgical device to slow down the contractions and the acid output. Dr. Grimson combined this operation with another which short-circuited much of the ulcer area...
...basic theory of color television is fairly simple. Even a black & white television picture is an optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames on a strip of movie film. Pictures or elements...
...alone. A special curriculum committee set up by New York City's Board of Education had also been wondering about comic books, In its last report, the committee cautiously recommended that New York teachers begin to look into them as a possible "educational device for the slow learners...
During and since the meeting, the Paris press, particularly that of the Right and Left, accused Bevin and Acheson of bullying France into accepting a new dominant Germany. They recall Schuman's telling a press conference, for instance, that, though there would be a slow-down in dismantling German industry, such plants as the huge Thyssen Steel Works in the Ruhr, which made ten per cent of the Reich's war output, would definitely not be removed from proscription. On Thanksgiving day, when the protocol was announced, however, dismantling of Thyssen came to a half...
...thing that this year's opponents are consistently willing to admit is that Harvard players can block and tackle as hard as any team around. The reason they haven't done so more consistently is that they are slow. No coach can do anything about slowness any more than they can teach a poor player football instincts...