Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong's "Horses and American Social life and manners. Altogether a good thing. . . Carl Carmer's "The Hudson" is a fine compound of history and legend by one of our best investigators of regional America. . . . Granville Bick's "Figures of Transition" is an intelligent and illuminating study of six English writers at the end of the last century whose work serves as a transition from the Victorian to the modern period in English literature...
Have managed to pick up or read (at American clubs usually) all copies up to Oct. 4. Amazing where one finds TIME. . . . Up at the KMA Compound, at Chinwangtao for instance; only there, two of the Jap Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were...
...friend has said that if Kaufman isn't a millionaire, he'll do until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven't got any of it. If I don't get a hit each year I am in a damned...
Much of the diffusion into smaller fields has been in the form of an increase in compound fields with Government and Philosophy the most popular combination. A total of fifty-one compound fields were listed by the Records Office...
...jump, he cannot turn or close his eyes without falling. Faced with madness or paralysis, he is generally willing to undergo any heroic measure to set his world straight again. One of the best treatments for neurosyphilis (including tabes dorsalis, general paresis) is injections of tryparsamide, a penetrating arsenic compound. Tryparsamide has one tremendous drawback: it sometimes injures, sometimes destroys, the optic nerve, produces flickering vision, a narrow range of sight, even blindness. Yet doctors dare not do without the drug, because in cases of advanced syphilis it is one of the best safeguards against insanity and death...