Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most dangerous element in Europe today--in the world today, he feels, is Italy's outspoken ambitions in the Mediterranean. There "British and French possessions are so important that they could ill afford, in the long run, to allow Mussolini to realize his aspiration...
Last week Dr. Urey announced production in experimental quantities of another overweight element - heavy nitrogen, which weighs 15 units to 14 for ordinary nitrogen. After two years of work he and his associates have produced 20 grams of heavy nitrogen in 2½% concentration, 400 grams of lower concentrations. To obtain it they used a 35-ft. vertical tube designed by Columbia's George B. Pegram for the separation of heavy oxygen. The tube contains 1,200 steel cones. A gaseous compound of ammonia, rich in nitrogen, passes up through the tube; some condenses, trickles down and with each...
...chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect of sex control in human reproduction-provided the parents will submit to artificial insemination by sperm from which one element or the other has been removed...
...athletic, theatrical and educational ventures, lecture to them on subjects like "Wearing the Uniform," "Personal Purity," "Don't be a Borrower," "Great Soldiers of America," and must be aware of opportunities like one mentioned in the manual: "May i is the day set aside by the radical element e; our population for anti-American demonstrations. It is well to initiate a flank attack against this evil by holding on that day a pro-American patriotic celebration...
Despite this charitarian attitude, jealous and envious doctors constantly try to keep their patients from the ministrations of the famed and expert Mayos. Always anxious to soothe this element in the profession, Dr. Will, the elder, immediately dictated a telegram the instant he heard last month that the Chicago Daily Times intended to print a series of illustrated articles on the Mayo Clinic. The telegram: "We are very much concerned that you are publishing a series of articles on the Mayo Clinic. Such publicity is derogatory to the dignity and achievements of the medical profession, violates our conception of professional...