Word: flows
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Every muscular function of the human body is triggered by a small electrical current transmitted to the muscles through the nerves. Doctors have long assumed that a chemical reaction at the synapses (the junctions between nerves) causes the impulses to flow through the nerves until-through junction after junction-they reach the muscles. But the chemistry of impulse transmission along the nerve fibers was not known. Last week Colum bia University announced that Dr. David Nachmansohn and his colleagues in the university's Department of Neurology had found new evidence to support his 20-year-old theory...
Moreover, TVA has ideal customers. Big industry and such agencies as the AEC use power in a steady flow with no peaks to worry about. TVA customers are so grateful for what TVA refers to as its "Henry Ford system" (i.e., lots of electricity at low prices) that they make freer use of their irons, TV sets, frying pans, porch lights and furnaces (nearly half the 650,000 electrically heated homes in the U.S. are in TVA territory). While the average U.S. family used 3,707 kwh. of power last year at a cost...
Through the long night and into the next day the U.S. watched the ebb and flow of the political tides until, with an almost imperceptible surge, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States...
...Council committee report which proposed that the filtering of the air in the library should be improved to clear the musty atmosphere. Library officials were "very sympathetic." Thomas E. Petri '62 observed, and contacted the Department of Buildings and Grounds for an immediate study on the Library's air flow...
...story of Weddings is less important than the way it is told. Director Engel has attempted a sort of "candid cinema,' in which the principles of art are continuously (and sometimes unfortunately) subordinated to the flow of life. He often throws away his working script' encourages his actors to improvise. Then he moves around them with a portable camera and tracks the action as it develops, catching this, missing that, taking his chances and riding his luck...