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Word: miligrams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper him in adjusting with nice precision scales which are sensitive to minute infinitesimals of a miligram. Naturally Technician Irénée du Pont is nonchalant though extremely circumspect in the presence of high explosives-a major product of the du Pont industries. His coolness in the presence of trinitrotoluene famed as "T. N. T.," does not however carry over into social intercourse. Aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nitrates, Astronomy | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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