Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When three Negroes applied for admission to graduate schools of the University of Tennessee this fall, President C. E. Brehm rushed to the state attorney general with a question: In view of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings (TIME, June 12), would Tennessee have to take them...
Shock & Counter-Shock. Selye has coined the forbidding name "general adaptation syndrome" for what happens when the system is subjected to overall stress. It begins, he holds, with an alarm reaction. The first phase is shock, in which body temperature and blood pressure fall, along with blood salt and blood sugar. The shock phase may last from a few minutes to 24 hours. Even before it ends, the system begins to mobilize for counter-shock: the pituitary sends more ACTH flooding to the adrenals, where it boosts the output of adrenal hormones. Blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increase...
...that mean that the economic sky was going to fall? There was no sign of such a catastrophe in the barnyard-or in the sky. Despite the big rise in prices, commodity prices had still not yet reached their boomtime peak of 1948 (see chart). On the contrary, the first rumors of peace last week sent the Associated Press index of commodity prices tumbling in the biggest break in more than two years...
Blinding Twilight. But during the spring and fall, both the sun and the stars often failed them. The sun remained invisible below the horizon for many hours each day, but it gave enough light to blot out the stars. When a weather-watching B-29 started out for the North Pole, a standard mission for Squadron 375, it had to take off during a particular 15-minute period in each 24 hours. If it flew at any other time, it could not get to the pole and back without having to pass through a broad belt of blinding twilight...
...ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...