Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with cyclamates (besides the sodium compound, there is a calcium combination for patients on low-salt diets) is that they do not behave predictably in the human body-unlike sugar, which is completely and naturally metabolized. Cyclamates break down in the body, forming chemicals, notably cyclohexylamine (CHA). This, in large doses (upwards of 50 times the probable human dose of cyclamate), is known to cause bladder cancer in rats. Because of the emergence of CHA, cyclamates injected into incubating eggs cause grotesque deformities in many of the chicks and kill others in the shell...
...Lines has asked for a renewal of the subsidy, but has made no great show of enthusiasm for the idea. The ship often carries fewer than the 1,500 passengers that it needs to break even on a North Atlantic run, and it loses nearly $5,000,000 a year...
After a scoreless first half. senior Gene Warner gave Harvard a narrow 1-0 lead in the third period on a 15-yard power shot. Brown surprised the Crimson minutes later with a fast break and goal against the wind, evening the score...
...sorrow that he caused someone else (i.e., Cynthia Lennon). The song "You Never Give Me Your Money" is about divorce proceedings and alimony payments and the section of it that goes "I never send you my pillow/I only send you my invitation/and in the middle of the celebration/ I break down" is significantly placed just before that last chorus of "Carry that Weight" which goes "Boy you're gonna carry that weight a long time." In other words Lennon is moving from the general advice and exhortation that is the first chorus of "Carry that Weight" to the particular example...
...Deans (or Associate Deans) for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences, who would serve perhaps on a part-time basis as academic deputies of the Dean of the Faculty within the sphere of decision-making which he delegated to them. Still other more drastic proposals would break up the present Faculty of Arts and Sciences and replace it by three faculties of Natural Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences...