Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses, old, new, domestic, foreign. Ten strips, each treated with a different amount and combination of fertilizer, will run lengthwise, cutting the grass at right angles, forming 90 differently treated little experimental football fields...
...Amalgam-an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and its alloys are pliable substances ranging from liquid to solid according to the amount of mercury used. They are mechanically convenient for use in dentistry...
...admittedly undersized amount for levees and spillways from Cape Girardeau, Mo., (near Cairo, Ill.) to Head of the Passes (Baton Rouge...
Last week the three newspapers of Lancaster, Pa.?Intelligencer,* News-Journal, New Era?were brought under a single ownership, the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. This corporation, forthwith, put on sale at par a 6% bond issue to the amount of $600,006, pointed out that in 1927 the three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such...
...methods used in finding out these facts vary with different people. The changes in the blood are studied under different activities and conditions, the oxygen consumed, the carbonic acid excreted, the changes in breathing, the amount and rate of blood circulating, the amount of blood put out by one beat of the heart, and other similar actions...