Word: containing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over. It was Captain Bruce who, with one other man, and using oxygen tanks to reinforce their panting lungs, attained 27,250 feet, within 2,000 feet of the summit, before they were compelled to turn back. The new expedition will contain 13 members, six of whom are novices. Major R. W. C. Kingston will be medical officer and naturalist, Captain J. B. L. Noel, official photographer and cinematographer...
...bowed to Watters last year; Chapman has been victorious in the quarter-mile races of Oxford-Cambridge meets in the past two years, and tonight makes his first appearance in the half; while Geilfuss won sixth place in the 1923 intercollegiate quarter. In the 1927 race, both teams contain strong ex-schoolboy runners, and should fight a hard battle...
...greater disabilities can be imagined than that of the loss of an arm to a pianist. Yet recent death notices contain the name of an old Hungarian, aged 75, famed as a pianist despite the loss of his right arm. Count Geza Zichy was a boy of 14 when maiming came to him in a hunting accident, yet with extraordinary courage and perseverance he schooled his remaining arm to do the work of two. He achieved such mastery that he gained the admiration of Liszt, who proclaimed him a phenomenon, accepted him as his pupil...
...iodin regularly to growing children in districts where goiter is frequent, and the accumulated scientific evidence seems to show that the method is efficient. Donald K. Tressler and A. W. Wells of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries have recently made a study of the amount of iodin contained in various food substances. Iodin is found in all fish and fishery products, mollusks and crustaceans; marine fishes contain more iodin than fresh water fishes. Oysters, clams and lobsters contain 200 times as much iodin as beef steak or milk; shrimp 100 times as much; crabs and most ocean fishes...
...form of application remains much the same as in former years. Groups of 6 or 12 couples comprise a box. All groups must elect a chairman and send applications to the Box Chairman, at 9 Bow Street, on or before February 15. Applications must be typewritten and should contain the names of the members of the box and their guests, arranged in alphabetical order but with the chairman's heading the list...