Word: dill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action on his resolution. Two days later the Privileges & Elections Committee unanimously reported it out and, a day after, the Senate unanimously adopted it. Vice President Curtis promptly named a special investigating committee of five Senators: California's Johnson, Maryland's Goldsborough, Missouri's Patterson (Republicans), and Washington's Dill, New York's Wagner (Democrats). To finance the inquiry into 35 senatorial campaigns the Senate allowed $100,000. The committee was almost immediately rendered headless by the resignation of Senator Johnson as chairman. His official excuse: "My time is so wholly occupied with my duties that it is utterly impossible...
...date secondary auditorium, red and brown and coppery, seating 900. where many Chicagoans in the past year have resumed their acquaintance with Shakespeare and liked it. Chief sponsor of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...
Caraway of Arkansas, Dill of Washington. Ownership by a judicial nominee of motor, mining, oil, rail, industrial or other stocks did not alarm these Senators, did not make them distrust the nominee's honor. But they would recommend confirmation of no judicial nominee whom they knew owned utility power stock, would presumably make it their business to uncover such ownership in all future nominees...
...reasons for Clarence DeMar's supremacy in 25-mile cross-country jogs has been discovered in a study recently concluded by Assistant Professor D. B. Dill in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory at the Graduate School of Business Administration. Interested in the relation of the chemical condition of a worker's blood to his general efficiency, Professor Dill put the well-known Melrose runner and 24 other persons through a series of 20-minute runs on a tread-mill, in order to determine the amount of lactic acid accumulated in their blood...
...When the muscles are working so fast that they cannot get enough oxygen for their recovery process," Dr. Dill explained, "lactic acid accumulates in them and leaks out into the blood, producing or tending to produce exhaustion. We placed DeMar on our horizontal treadmill, geared to a speed of 9.3 kilometers an hour, and found that the amount of exhaust acid he had accumulated at the end of twenty minutes was almost negligible...