Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December a Canadian mail-carrier, hearing echoes of this speculation, brashly sent word to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that he would fearlessly drink any amount of "heavy water." No attention was paid to him. Oslo observers last week declared that the Hansen gulp marked the first human consumption of heavy water. That was not quite true. From Germany two curious scientists recently reported drinking very dilute heavy water to mark the length of time that fluids remain in the body. But Professor Hansen's dose was the first recorded drink of heavy water...
...WINTER DIARY AND OTHER POEMS- Mark Van Doren-Macmillan ($1.90). Verse, lyrical, bucolic, metaphysical, by the author of The Transients...
...Board could make room for new prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
...York, Jan. 24, Mark Sullivan in criticizing the Roosevelt administration pointed out the paradoxical position of the present day Liberals and Reactionaries in the United States, saying that for himself he accepts the historical definition of liberty as meaning immunity from compulsion by the state, instead of disguising economic security under that name...
...mark any of the $4,000,000,000 for specific projects in any locality...