Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into serious trouble by failing to use this title when referring to the King of Kings), for as late as 1955, when I left the country completely disenchanted with its ruler, the Ministry of Education maintained "prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep the people of Ethiopia for long in ignorance and poverty at the feet of a despot...
Seeking Sikhs In the compound of Amritsar's Golden Temple, holy of holies to India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, long lines of tall, bearded and turbaned Sikh men and slender Sikh women passed slowly by a small wooden...
Some 2,600 abbreviations compound the confusion. The Bachelor of Science in Home Economics is known as B.S. in H.E., B.S. in H.Ec., B.S. in H.Econ., B.S. in Home EC. and B.S. in Home Econ. At the other extreme, M.E. stands for Master of Education, Master of Elements, Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineer, Military Engineer, Mining Engineer and Mistress of English. Reverse the letters, and a man becomes an Engineer of Mines...
...years hundreds of chemists have been trying to solve one of organic chemistry's toughest problems: artificial synthesization of a compound with all the biological (and hence medical) properties of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). Last week the University of Pittsburgh announced that a research team headed by Dr. Klaus Hofmann, 49, had turned the trick...
...example of how the course might integrate the various branches of chemistry, Westheimer explained that the physical chemistry of distillation could be studied in conjunction with the organic chemistry problem of obtaining a pure compound...