Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been known to offer advice. Some of it has even been of use. But there is a reliable betting establishment that will offer odds of five, two, and even that such will not be the case with your freshman adviser. In any event choose your courses with a certain amount of humility. You have a lot of time before you make up your final course list. Don't be dogmatic about the choices you listed today. Shop around. If you find something that you like better, you can change your course without charge before October...
Raytheon had no such illusions, but its researchers did notice that the microwaves definitely helped certain conditions. They decided that the very short (five inch) waves from the tubes could be used as an improved sort of diathermy, to heat tissues deep in the body...
...Hentig contends that certain characteristics of law-abiding citizens arouse a counterreaction in the criminal. The inexperienced businessman, for example, invites embezzlement; the nagging wife is flirting with murder; the alcoholic is a natural for robbery. Thus the victim becomes the "tempter...
...stock market, already nervous over the news from Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), promptly went into a new decline, certain that the new curb would edge interest rates upward and increase the cost of doing business. In two days, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 2.29 points to 180.61 in the heaviest selling in weeks. But bankers doubted whether FRB's action would tighten credit much. There was too much money in circulation and too many big non-bank lenders, e.g., insurance companies, ready to fork out cash. New York's National City Bank Monthly Letter said that a practical...
Scientists have known that it is enzymes which burn up fat, and that certain co-enzymes are needed to get the fire started. But the identity of the co-enzymes was unknown. Biochemist Lehninger discovered that the same enzymes which oxidize carbohydrates also oxidize fat. He found out where the burning takes place, too. In the cells of the liver (where half the body's fat is oxidized) are small, granular structures called mitochondria. The mitochondria, Lehninger announced, are the cellular power plants "or stokers or burners" for the combustion...