Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...
When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...
...Germany has neither the wish nor the intention to mix in internal Austrian affairs, or to annex or unite with Austria...
Passengers with hangovers became clear headed when they began breathing a mix ture of 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen. Others became violently airsick when they took off their masks, quickly recovered when they put them on again. All showed normal pulse and respiration rates, were able to eat comfortably without taking off the masks...
Offered for licensing by Houdry Process Corp., the new process may revolutionize refining. At present only Sun and Socony-Vacuum are using it, and they mix the result with ordinary gas to improve the octane rating. If Houdry refining becomes general, it may: 1) reduce the need for the tetraethyl lead which now makes most gasoline satisfactory in modern high-compression engines; 2) conserve U. S. oil reserves by yielding more gasoline per barrel of crude; 3) help stabilize prices by stabilizing stocks, now badly unbalanced because gasoline and fuel oil must be produced simultaneously though one is most used...