Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble with the mortar between the bricks found in the Business School Buildings has also been discovered in the Houses and on the stone facings of the gates about Dunster House. Workmen have been at work for several weeks in an effort to stop the decaying of the mortar on the gate posts. The stone facing on the posts is only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major...
...State is not an absolute or absolutist State!" he cried. "Our State is organized, human, attached to the realities of life" through the representation of Italian employes and employers in the National Council of Corporations. "The decay of (laissez faire) Capitalism coincides with the decay of Socialism. The Socialist parties of Europe are in fragments...
...actually dangerous to ducks. Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...
...sound whose decay Dr. Knudsen studies is a pure tone produced electrically and fed through a loudspeaker into a reverberation chamber filled with gas. Some of the sound is absorbed by the walls instead of by the gas, but this is calculated and discounted. The sound is picked up by a microphone, amplified, converted into electric current which causes a bulb to glow. If the sound has decayed beyond a certain level the current produced is insufficient to light the bulb. The time is measured between the cessation of tone production and the point in decay at which there...
...that a large part of the absorption in air is due to collisions between oxygen molecules and water vapor molecules. Dr. Knudsen's experiments with air and its two major components, oxygen and nitrogen, weigh heavily in favor of this suggestion. There was no appreciable difference in the decay rates in moist nitrogen and dry nitrogen. But the decay rate in moist air was only one-fifth the rate in moist oxygen, and oxygen is one-fifth...