Word: iso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Greatest Race." Finns regularly win Olympic races at 3,000 metres or more. Last week three solemn Finns named Vol-mari Iso-Hollo, Gunnar Hoeckert and IImari Salminen won their specialties, the 3,000-metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner...
...pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
Steeplechase. The course in the 3,000-metre steeplechase was 3,450 metres. Officials had made a mistake in designing it. After the race judges consulted the runners who, instead of protesting for a re run, agreed to stand by the result: Volmari Iso-Hollo (Finland) first, by 70 yards, Tom Evenson (England) second, Joe McCluskey (U. S.) third...
...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...