Word: tension
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the tension in the Senate last week as that body approached a vote on the export debenture feature of its farm relief bill. Informal polls showed an almost even balance of sentiment for and against the proposal to allow, to farm surplus exporters, bounties equal to one-half the tariff rates on their commodities. There were 47 Senators opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break...
...that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through it, then that cell dies. The cell's potential depends on its semipermeable film, on certain electrolytic concentrations, water, temperatures, oxidation...
...Austria's progress is blocked," he said, "by a political tension, for much of which the present Government is held responsible, although unjustly. Long-continued agitations and accumulated hatred, which so far as concerns my person would be bearable, have also without reason been cast on my priestly office and my Church...
What has happened in Geneva during the past week has happened before and will happen again. It is quite clear that the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate, but it is hard to see what more can be done without arousing international animosities and creating international tension. The fault lies in large part with the peace settlements, but there is little prospect of their being revised without war. Under the circumstances one is driven back to the hope that humanity will live and learn, that, in the words of a recent Czech writer, the exaggerated idea...
...however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled punches in a fight; a fellow knocked into water coming up in dry clothes) Director Asquith gets across...