Word: kilograms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes...
...could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously...
...State in speculative efforts to cut each other's throats. The silk trade, on the other hand, reached a pass of despair last year in which honest worm raisers began to burn their mulberry trees. The State stopped that with a bounty of one lira per kilogram of cocoons, but the silk, metal and several other trades must be thoroughly overhauled. Such jobs take money. Hence last week the $50,000,000 loan...
...silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles per kilogram of silver. This would make...
...Restored the Wartime nuisance tax of 12 pfennigs (2½¢) on each kilogram (2.2 Ib.) of salt...