Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Childs donation to Yale, whose disbursement these scientists will manage, was $10,000,000, precisely the amount which the world's No. 1 cancer authority, Manhattan's Dr. James Ewing, says is necessary to establish an effective cancer study institute...
...nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...William Donald Urry of Massachusetts Institute of Technology read a paper on the ages of iron meteorites. Ages are measured in the same way as those of terrestrial rocks; by the amount of decomposition of radioactive material. "A very young iron meteorite," said Dr. Urry, "is 100,000,000 years old. The oldest is 2,900,000,000 years old." The last figure is just within the upper limit commonly given by geologists for the age of the earth and the solar system. Dr. Urry believes that iron meteorites are the debris of planets which have broken up within...
...Mars, Despite the spreading of the frosty polar caps of Mars in winter and the darkening of the "canals" in summer (possible evidence of vegetation), astronomers have long been convinced that there is very little water on the "red planet." The amount of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere appears to be less than 5% of that on earth. It is difficult to measure the planet's water by spectrographic means because of spectrum lines caused by vapor in the Earth's air. Last spring Astronomers Walter Sydney Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory...
...childhood should not be taken too literally, warns Author Dargan. Only child of a famed Paris bookseller who rose from an illiterate peasant, little Anatole arrived at his first opinions by taking the opposite side from his father, one of whose opinions was that his son would never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten...