Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...album also includes such little-known 19th century works as Hans Gram's The Death Song of An Indian Chief (words by "Philenia, a lady of Boston"), John Knowles Paine's Overture to As You Like It and Overture to Mac beth by Henry Fry, who claimed that his mammoth Santa Claus symphony was the longest "unified" instrumental piece on a single subject ever written. Fascinating history, modest music...
...with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from the pan. The rush to cash in nearly demolished the office. Within half an hour, the agency's 5,500,000 francs were gone, and it had to send a hurry call to Paris for more. By last week, more than...
...Each unit is one micromicrocurie (millionth of a millionth of a curie) or radioactivity owing to strontium 90 per gram of calcium...
...delicately and concluded that "at the present time, strontium 90 can be found in all human beings, regardless of age or geographic location s . ." The amount is not large. Averaging all the results together, they reckoned that the human race now has .12 micromicrocuries* of strontium 90 for each gram of body calcium. This is about one ten-thousandth of "the presently accepted maximum permissible concentration...
...past bomb tests is still in the stratosphere or in the soil, but it will tend to move for years into human bones. If no more large tests are made, the Columbia men figure, the average human bone should contain, by 1970, about 1.3 micromicrocuries of strontium 90 per gram of calcium. This is eleven times the present amount...