Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irregularities in the gravitational field of the earth by means of the torsion balance. Masses of density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt, or bleached cavernous ground can often...
...antivenin produced from all species of snakes in the country, so that a single product can be shipped to all parts of North America. The institute at Glenolden, Pennsylvania, is the central one for the United States and Canada, but the snake farm in Brazil produces the largest amount of the serum...
...India where the king cobra, largest and most poisonous of snakes, takes a toll of thousands of lives a year, no progress has been made because the snake to held to be sacred. Since snakes die after a certain amount of venom has been extracted, the natives will not permit the development of any such protective measures, according to Dr. do Amaral. He added, "The natives of India would rather die than have a colbra die. The number of times their preference is fulfilled is amazing...
...selection and arrangements of specimens for the new installations, and have started upon the laborious task of labelling which must go on synchronously. Recent developments in typewriters, which have made it possible to produce effective labels by their use, will greatly reduce the cost of the labelling, but the amount of work involved in the production of a great many thousand labels, each one of which must be at once concise, full, and intelligible, can probably be appreciated only by those who have undertaken...
...present experts committee is not so much to revise the Dawes Plan as to complete it. The full amount to be paid was the only missing factor in the Dawes Plan...