Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conquer or Die." While the French fought north of Laon and St. Quentin with herds of tanks and massed 75s (see p. 25) to stem the German swing-the general commanding the French II Army led its tank counterattack in person-history stood still for France and Great Britain. The world's battle was to decide whether Adolf Hitler's apocalypse really showed him the future of Western civilization "for the next 1,000 years." At least 80 German infantry divisions were in it and ten of twelve Nazi mechanized divisions. At least 5,000 planes with crosses...
...base of the brain, just above the brain stem, is a small patch of grey matter. Only one three-hundredth part of the total brain, the hypothalamus is concertmaster in the symphony of human behavior. Last week, in Manhattan, noted neurologists and psychiatrists from all sections of the U. S. met at the 20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson...