Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angry passengers. "But it's an Act of God. Yes, we're sorry you were stalled thirty hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner, five standard Pullmans. It's an Act of God. It won't help you to call the Governor...
College students are finding it very convenient and economical to send their laundry home by the pick-up and delivery service of Railway Express, according to the Company's local agent...
...above will be found in Walter Hough's book, Fire as an Agent, in Human Culture...
TIME readers will try this experiment at their own risk. Fire as an Agent in Human Culture was published by the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. Nat'l Museum bulletin...
Main approach to the problem of utilization of solar energy has been study of green plants, which in their own simple and mysterious way utilize the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. Chief agent in this process of photosynthesis is chlorophyll, the green coloring-matter in leaves, which acts as a catalyst, speeding up the transformation, but undergoing no conversion itself. Since chlorophyll is not effective as a catalyst when extracted from the plant, chemists have been unable to study its action. It is composed of two separate pigments, blue-green chlorophyll A and yellow...