Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Fund is the largest Alumni Fund in America. More than 22,000 individual alumni, two-thirds of the graduates of the college, have contributed to it a sum of over $1,800,000. For classes less than 25 years out of college a special stipulation of crediting compound interest toward the $100,000 gift for the twenty fifth reunion has been provided...
...simply carbon breathed in over a period of years as coal dust. When city folk were found with black lungs, the explanation was that the cause was city smoke. Physicians called it "anthracosis." But modern chemistry shows that the black stuff is not carbon. It is a complex "heterocyclic" compound which does many things that carbon does not - e.g., it gives off an animal smell when burned, swells up in jellylike masses when placed in alkali, forms colloidal (finely subdivided) solutions, turns white and fluffy when acted on by alkali plus chlorine. Therefore, concluded Dr. Georgine A. Moerke of Detroit...
...house of 774 mats (3,096 square yards of floor space) on the Palace grounds, under the constant surveillance of four tutors, two governesses, three physicians and 60 retainers. At the age of five he was permitted to meet eight hand-picked noble moppets, who visited his compound on Saturdays and squabbled over his princely bicycle and sandbox, while Akihito stood by and gaped...
Ethyl Gasoline Corp. issues licenses to the 123 refiners who make 88% of all U. S. gasoline. The refiners treat their gas with this antiknock compound, may sell the treated gas only to jobbers who are also licensed by the top company...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Warner Bros.) is 606, the arsenical compound that the dumpy, cigar-puffing Jewish genius found he could shoot into syphilitics and kill the pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the Hays Office, the State censorship boards, the U. S. cinemillions conditioned to regard any mention of syphilis as indecent. Consulted in advance, after a fortnight's solemn thought the Hays experts spoke. Their verdict: the word syphilis must be mentioned as seldom as possible in the picture; on no account...