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...apparatus for administering electric shock at home. Heart disease, paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis and polio were among the diseases it was alleged to "cure." It might, at that: its voltages could easily cause death...
Brazil's Communists, outlawed and barred from their headquarters, felt a little better after the first shock had worn off. The big reason for their sense of relief was that President Dutra's Government had lost the offensive. It had found itself legally unable to finish the Communists by turning their legislators out of Congress and stopping the presses of their raucous Tribuna Popular. Moreover, many a thoughtful Brazilian, with no love for Communism but with a lively memory of dictatorship, had rushed to support the Communist Party's right to exist...
...made a deal with Paramount Pictures to sell it Liberty Films, including It's a Wonderful Life and various other scripts for a rumored $4,000,000 in Paramount stock. All agreed also to go to work for Paramount. To Hollywood's independent companies, it was a shock to hear that one of the best had given up. The signatures with which the deal was settled seemed like the handwriting on the wall to the war-born independents...
...Shock." As if he had not enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
Under ordinary conditions, the straining atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...