Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber's door was guarded by a paraffin screen from which the neutrons evicted protons. Having positive charges, the protons ripped through the chamber, freeing ions which were collected on an insulated electrode so that their flow could be amplified, detected, measured...
...better way he could cater to his country's pride, descended to Brooklyn's grimy docks, greeted the first Russian ship to put into a U. S. port in 17 years. No ordinary ship did he greet but a model ship sent to start the flow of trade between the U. S. and Russia, sent to win U. S. admiration for all things Communistic...
This diplomatic encouragement to start the flow of U. S. machinery to U. S. S. R. -on credit-received a rude rebuff three days later. Secretary Hull, who recently had the pleasure of recognizing Russia, might have been expected to respond by using the State Department's unofficial power to O. K. loans to the Soviet by U. S. bankers. But last week the House of Representatives quietly passed Senator Johnson's bill forbidding the making of loans to any government in default to the U, S. The Kerensky Government left a legacy of $187,000,000 owing...
...high priests of industrial economics. Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, had declared in his book The New Capitalism published scarcely two months ago: "High prices, particularly if they are out of balance, tend to destroy the interchange of goods, and cause a starved flow of goods to consumers. Such prices destroy purchasing power, dry up demand, create unemployment, and lower the standard of living...
Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...