Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indescribably horrible. Morphine has long been the doctor's analgesiac. Dr. Henry Swartley Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does not interfere with muscular action. One of Dr. Ruth's treatments lasts from three to six months, may be repeated. Dr. Mario Dogliotti of Turin, Italy, told...
Construction statistics on the dam ran into dazzling figures, difficult problems. Over 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock were removed from the river and nearby quarries. Eight and one-half miles of railroad track were raised without stopping traffic. Four thousand men were employed at one time in the work. The dam is 92 feet high and with the power house extends more than a mile in length...
...Yale buildings at 6 per cent per annum, which would represent the income from a fund greater than the whole original building cost not, as is generally assumed, the income from a fund equal to 25 per cent of the original cost. Professor Henderson found "that each additional million cubic feet. . .in buildings draws from general income a sum equal to the salaries of four or five professors, or nine to twelve instructors. . .It appears reasonable to suggest that as many as possible of the new buildings should be kept closed, unheated and unlighted, until times improve...
Assuming an average walnut has a volume of 1 cu. in. and a cubic foot has 1,728 cu. in. in it we get 524,288 divided by 1,728 equals...
...year. Backed by the strong Insull interests together with Texas Corp., Cities Service Co., Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and other big companies, this line is thought to have an auspicious future, especially since the gas will be sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot natural gas from the South past...