Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed by some of the men in Science that the concentrator in that field, because of the amount of work he must do in his field in order securely to grasp his subject, should not be required to have a reading knowledge of more than one language. The differentiation is undoubtedly valid in some branches of Science and the logical solution is to require a useful reading knowledge of one language to be obtained in either school or college and allow the individual departments to waive the requirement of a second language if they so desire...
Black Shirt henchmen said that the precise degree of dedication is calculated from the number of meetings a Mosleyite has attended, his degree of proficiency in Fascist drill and the amount of his success in selling by door-to-door canvassing methods Sir Oswald's party organ, The Black Shirt...
...animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy water in the human body might be a cause of old age and senile death...
Last December a Canadian mail-carrier, hearing echoes of this speculation, brashly sent word to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that he would fearlessly drink any amount of "heavy water." No attention was paid to him. Oslo observers last week declared that the Hansen gulp marked the first human consumption of heavy water. That was not quite true. From Germany two curious scientists recently reported drinking very dilute heavy water to mark the length of time that fluids remain in the body. But Professor Hansen's dose was the first recorded drink of heavy water...
...desire for toy trains is unlimited. President Cowen's biggest problem, which is also the problem of many another toymaker, is the marked seasonal character of his business. The sales curve starts to climb steeply in October, sinks almost out of sight after Christmas. It takes an enormous amount of capital to keep Lionel Corp. going during its nine lean months. Last May, hampered by lack of capital, with some $296,000 owing to creditors, Lionel Corp. slipped into receivership...