Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also understand from certain sections of the press that my literary tastes are confined to cookery books and archeology...
Comrade Ryvin, a new official of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, told the meeting of the following case: 'Once,' he said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...
...Presidential election to replace Dr. Eduard Benes, now in England, is expected this week. Almost certain to be elected, observers agree, is the present Foreign Minister, Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky. The Slovaks have demanded that the new President must be one who always actively opposed the pro-French, pro-British foreign policies of the now discredited Dr. Benes. Minister Chvalkovsky, who served as Minister to Germany and Italy during the past eleven years, has earned the confidence of the Nazi and Fascist Governments, qualifies on this score...
Mechanical pumps have a certain limit beyond which they cannot decrease the vacuum chamber pressure any further. So Dr. Hickman has designed a sort of chemical pump which goes to work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...
...processes in terms of exact mathematics. Statistical mathematics is extensively used in "some fields of life-science-for example, in genetics, for charting the occurrence of hereditary variations-and a great many biological processes have been reduced to chemical equations. But chemical equations are essentially descriptive. They assert that certain substances combine or dissociate to form other substances, but skim over the fundamental physical processes...