Word: mer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
...week opened, Finance Minister Peret commenced to juggle in earnest with the incredibly complicated fiscal problems bequeathed to him by Premier Briand's last two Finance Ministers, MM. Loucheur and Doumer (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). From the additional taxes voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed...
...owns a major interest in the Monte Carlo Casino Co., which is whimsically entitled La societe anonyme des bains de mer de Monte Carlo (i.e., The Monte Carlo Sea Bathing Corporation...
...wished from their hearts that everyone knew as much about seasickness and its prevention as does Dr. P. H. Desnoes, port medical officer at Manhattan for the United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle and the saccule, and three semicircular canals, all of which aid in special orientation); 2) "muscle sense...
...court that will determine the mer-Es of the case is composed of men who rank high in their profession. Three justices will preside, and they are Hon. Elisha H. Brewster, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts; Hon. Philip, James McCook, L '99 Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; and Hon. Marcus Morton L. '85, Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts...