Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adirondacks, Dr. Langmuir was struck by insects which he admitted hit him harder than any others he ever felt. Someone told him that these were the famed deer botflies. The scientist estimated that if the flies were traveling at 800 m.p.h. the force of the impact would amount to 310 pounds and that they would penetrate deeply into human flesh- whereas, in reality, they bounced off the skin after the collision...
This brings the total amount voted by the Council to date to $1540. The Scholarship Committee repeated its earlier announcement that the last date for receiving applications for Student Council scholarships is April...
Pointing toward the league individual championships this weekend, Coach Hal Ulen has been giving his swimmers more than the average amount of training routine. He's been timing Cummin, Berizzi, Kendall, and the rest practically every time they've been in the water...
...restricted existence. A large portion of his college days must be sacrificed to the god of experimentation, and as a result, he has little time for those cultural and broadening pursuits which are among the chief privileges of a college education. In many cases, even the bare minimum amount of exercise necessary to keep him in decent physical shape is denied him, while extracurricular activities are a luxury. Certainly some reduction in laboratory hours is indicated if he is expected to become the well-rounded and broadly cultured man which it is Harvard's and President Conant...
...Review then told discreetly of an unnamed scientist who decided to pit a modern wetting agent against that anciently proverbial shedder of water-the plumage of a duck. He added a small amount of a wetting agent to a bath, put a duck in the tub. The duck, quickly soaked to the skin, became waterlogged, sank to its neck, floundering ignominiously. Reflecting that the duck might have caught a bothersome chill from this unprecedented experience, the scientist mercifully dispatched it, served it for dinner, with Burgundy and applesauce...