Word: consistency
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who doubt the existence of life on Mars are skeptical of the existence of the canals which Prof. Lowell so carefully mapped, an'd they point out that the light atmosphere, the extremes of heat and cold, the comparative absence of water (even if the polar caps consist of snow-and it is suggested that they may be congealed carbon dioxide-it is estimated that there is less water on Mars than there is in one of the larger of the Great Lakes) make life such as we know it impossible. But like the argument for "life...
...sold to bona fide grain-growers. As the farmers buy preferred stock, just so rapidly will the preferred stock of the general public be retired. Executive officers of the companies agree to continue in their present posts for five years The Board of Directors is to consist two-thirds of farmers. The plan will go into operation as soon as the general public has subscribed the first $4,000,000 of preferred stock...
...over all, 27 ft. 6⅝ in. in breadth, and has a surface displacement of 2,164 tons. Her speed on the surface is to be 21 knots, and submerged, 9 knots. Her complement will consist of 7 officers...
Subjects for the Round Table discussions consist of a varying rearrangement of the adjectives economic, financial, political, social ; and the nouns aspect, factor, problem, relationship, in conjunction with the names of the greater European Powers...
Apart from the National City Bank, America's billion-dollar concerns consist of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the U. S. Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroad systems...