Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sulphonated castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents." As explained last week in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review, wetting agents reduce the surface tension of water (which makes it contract into drops), thus enable it to penetrate and soak water-resistant substances. Wetting agents are now used in laundries, in dyeing and tanning, in medicine (increasing the efficacy of antiseptic solutions), in tooth paste, in metalworking...
...dimensional spacetime, which deals with the macrocosm of the universe. The velocity of light, c, is fundamental to both. According to Eddington, c is the natural "grain" of world structure. It is the velocity which cannot be surpassed, the speed at which masses become infinite, clocks stop, measuring rods contract to zero...
According to a contract with Phillips Brooks House, which agreed to underwrite the enterprise, 30 per cent of the profits would be returned for the law library fund. The social service center entered the agreement with the possibility they might suffer a loss and has indicated surprise at the yearbook's success...
Rules for Dr. Marseille's five-suit game vary considerably from those of orthodox contract bridge. Each player gets 16 cards, the extra one being faced up by the dealer for disposition by the player who gets the bid. The "book" (in bridge, six tricks) becomes eight in super-bridge. In the bidding, "royals" rank between spades and no trumps. Club and diamond tricks above book count 20 points, heart and spade tricks 25, royals 30, no trumps 40. Game level is raised from 100 to 120 points. Three slams are possible: little slam, or six tricks over book...
...Vigorously discussed was the new yearbook of the John Dewey Society, Educational Freedom and Democracy, written by a commission of nine progressive educators. The yearbook denounced meddling with teachers' freedom, cited patriotic groups, Government officials, a contract one teacher had to sign to get a job paying $637.50 a year in North Carolina: "I promise to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work. ... I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing and other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady. I promise not to go out with any young man except...