Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diesel. Near Utica, Mich., last week, Packard Motor Co. successfully tested the first Diesel type engine to be used in an aircraft, declared that the oil burning motor increased efficiency 25%, banished danger of fire from gasoline, eliminated electric ignition systems, carburetors, spark plugs, other nuisances...
...There is only one specific suggestion I should like to make. I should like to have added to the curriculum in the department of education a course in Harvard History. The danger of this, of course, is that it should turn into a mutual admiration society. But under the right man such a course should be made extremely valuable by portraying to us the traditions under which we are living, by giving us some idea of the theory of education as applied to an institution we are familiar with, and by teaching us history from first hand materials...
...director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation of pituitrin he has been able to separate two hormones−oxytocin useful in obstetrics. vasopressin useful in keeping up normal blood pressure during certain operations, useful too against diabetes insipidus. Dr. Kamm reasons that the danger from burns comes from the boiling of water out of the skin and flesh, and the failure of the body to replace that water effectively. His vasopressin he believes may stimulate the body to repair the water shortage of burns...
...King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...life," though it was she, not he, who was in physical danger...