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Word: liquidating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful and entirely liquid diet was prescribed by the Royal physicians, of whom Lord Dawson of Penn is the first doctor ever created a peer. Again working with him last week to save George's life with oxygen and every artifice known to science was Nurse Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: King of England | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...been duplicated elsewhere. In principle the Bridgman pressure apparatus is simple, like Archimedes' theoretical lever with which the old Greek said he could move the world. It is a hydraulic press, in which is utilized the fact that a piston bearing on a small area of a confined liquid delivers its pressure against every other area of equal size in the tank. Thus if a force of 100 lb. is brought against a piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Squeezing & Shearing | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy. At the reporter's instigation she dictated a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Right to Kill (Cont'd) | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...forces. His first apparatus was a battery of accumulators short-circuiting through a wire coil, producing a momentary magnetic field of high power. Next he designed a huge dynamo to provide the short-circuiting power. With this the coils blew up. Kapitza stopped that by chilling the coils with liquid helium ( −270° C.). Finally he was able to produce magnetic fields of 320,000 gauss, five times as intense as any previously created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hug & Gesture | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

BROWNS original University Hall still stands, only very slightly altered. John Brown, pioneer overseas shipping magnate, himself laid its corner stone in 1770 and gave liquid encouragement to the workmen when each floor and the root was finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown and Columbia--Architectural Contrasts | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

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