Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of forcing still more gasoline out of the crude oil. It was found that gasoline is volatile because its molecules are small, that gas oil and fuel oil are less volatile because their molecules are larger. It was also discovered that a heat-and-pressure treatment would break down the large molecules of gas oil and fuel oil into small molecules of gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced. This breaking down or splitting of the molecules was called cracking. The cracking process was first...
...steel rods which has held Harvard men past and present together is Class Spirit. At no time is this better demonstrated than today. To place Freshmen in these separate units, to break them up into groups of seventy-five or 100 from each class would mean the death of the class as a unit. If may be argued that loyalty to one's house is to take the place of loyalty to the class. Such is not the intention of those advocating the House plan. The class of 1934 we hope will be just as much of a unit...
...which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...
...Chinese still go to toads for materia medica. The dried venom of certain of their toads they give internally to break up colds and apply externally to treat toothache and local inflammations. The apparent effectiveness of Chinese toad venom induced Johns Hopkins to assign its Dr. Hans Jensen and R. K. Chen to examine the dried venom. Last week they reported that...
...Princeton had accepted the invitation of the Harvard and Yale authorities to act as referee of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge track meet in the Stadium on July 13. Mr. Bingham and Professor Kennedy were the directors of Harvard and Princeton athletics respectively at the time of the break in athletic relations between the two universities three years...