Word: carbons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...request of the University, carbon monoxide levels were measured last week in Watson Rink, along the banks of the Charles and at other locations, under the direction of John Spengler, professor of Public Health. Potentially hazardous levels of carbon monoxide (CO) were found in the skating rink and levels exceeding National Air Quality standards were found in other locations...
...earlier evolution of qualities that we regard as uniquely human?" This need to impose a dramatic unity on unimaginable lengths of time can also lead to inconsistencies. Ardrey says at one point that science has failed to advance our knowledge of ourselves, and elsewhere discusses the value of carbon dating, molecular genetics and the study of coprolites-fossilized feces-in revealing our prehistoric past. He asserts that the fate of Neanderthal man is unknown, and two pages later says with equal certainty that Cro-Magnon man killed him off. Finally, he notes dourly the prevalence of a current "doomsday attitude...
...people who make copies no longer find it necessary always to read them first. Watergate Defendant Kenneth Parkinson successfully argued that he had hot read a particular incriminating document; he had merely Xeroxed it. The photocopier has made many Americans too lazy to copy documents by hand, to use carbon paper, to express something in their own words, to read -perhaps too lazy to think...
...beauty of halon gas," Robert R. Walsh '65, assistant University librarian for building planning, said yesterday, is that it doesn't damage the books, as water would, and it doesn't suffocate people, like the carbon dioxide in Yale's Beinecke rare books library...
...must emphasize the fact that the authenticity of Scheissmann scrolls has been questioned, because the German scholar won't submit them to Carbon 14 date-testing--he alleges that writing covers every inch of every scroll...