Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes...
...will not be possible ... to carry water for washing purposes or razors. Smoking, also, will be most strictly prohibited, for every cubic inch of oxygen will be needed for human consumption. It can be seen that those who undertake the journey will in addition to a variety of hazards be subject to severe privations. Neither will it be necessary to take along any form of arms for in the unlikely event of there being inimical life on our satellite it is not probable that it would be of a type that would be seriously affected by [firearms...
...well as smell was influenced by sex hormones, the researchers, with the aid of Professor David Landsborough Thomson, collected 39 women and 16 men who suffered from progressive deafness caused by diseased nerves or bony growths in the inner ear. They dropped small doses of estrogen mixed with one cubic centimeter of oil into the patients' noses once a day for periods ranging from three months to two years...
...Akron and Macon. Having consulted Thomas Edison's son, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, the President last week authorized bids for one about half the size and cost authorized by Congress. Limited in length to 325 feet, in gas capacity to 1,000,000 cubic feet, the new ship will in fact be little more than an experiment helpful to future commercial development and perhaps useful for coast patrol...
...introducing drugs into the fluid of the spinal canal, and affecting the entire circulatory and nervous systems, the anesthetists filled the empty epidural space at the base of the spine (between the inner wall of the spinal column and the sheath of the spinal cord) with 30-60 cubic centimeters of distilled water solutions of pantocain. metycaine, intracaine or other similar local anesthetics...