Word: compound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purchasing aircraft cleaning compound in bulk instead of in small containers it saved...
...boarding boys and girls, who pay tuition. Under a unique setup, their high-school education is provided by the Rabun County public school system, which gives the farm school $1 a year as rent for classrooms, supplies ten teachers and 130 day students (who pay no tuition). To compound these contradictions, overall control is vested in the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and the school trustees make a point of seeing to it that religion is stressed for all 230 students...
...Plan. What alarms the U.N. most is the shaky position of the head of the central government in Leopoldville, Premier Cyrille Adoula, who has taken to sleeping in a paratroop compound in fear for his life. "He is hanging on by an eyelash," said a diplomat. The tumultuous Parliament is openly rebellious. One portly Deputy named Emile Zola drew cheers by reciting a long list of grievances against Adoula, punctuating each with "J'accuse...
...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...
Moderator Louis Jaffe then called on Dr. John Rock, clinical professor of Gynecology, Emeritus, to present the Catholic position and to reconcile it with his invention of Enovid. Enovid is a steroid compound, commonly known as "The Pill," which prevents ovulation...