Word: grams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World-Quart" bill is a metric system bill. It proposes to make standard throughout the U. S. the metre (world yard), the litre (world quart) and the one-half kilo gram (world pound). The world yard and world pound are about 10% greater than our present measures, and the world quart about 5% greater than our present quart. The use of these measures would be made obligatory in merchandising (not in manufacturing...
...would be a truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip and the raising by American women of $100,000 to purchase a gram of radium to be presented (by President Harding) to Mme. Curie for her personal...
...through the ranks in the department of anatomy until she stands today among perhaps a score of the leading anatomists of the country. She is favorably known for her work on the medulla oblongata and the lymphatic and vascular systems. When American women presented Mme. Curie with a gram of radium on her recent American visit Dr. Sabin was selected spokesman as the greatest American woman scientist...
...meeting will also give a decision on the possibility of adding a relay race, probably a two-mile affair, to the pro- gram of events in May. The question as to whether or not the Freshmen medley relay race is to count in the point score will be decided. The present ruling includes the Freshmen in the scoring, and even if the question is decided negatively it will probably not go into effect until next year's indoor meet. The date of the Indoor Intercollegiates for 1924 is likely to be changed...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...