Word: nitrogenous
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...qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately after the race. The most striking feature revealed by the examinations, in addition to the increase in non-protein nitrogen and uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall in the amount of sugar. This resembled nothing so much as what occurs when an overdose of insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular...
...Guaranteed production: 40,000 tons annually of fixed nitrogen for fertilization at maximum profit of 8%; no guarantee as to quantity, if any, or price of electric power available to the public...
...case of war, the Government is guaranteed 40,000 tons of nitrogen and right to take over Plant No. 2, indemnifying Ford for losses...
...Guaranteed production: 50,000 tons annually of fixed nitrogen; 100,000 horsepower at cost for manufacture of fertilizer; excess electric power to be sold at prices regulated under the Federal Water Power...
...case of war, 90,000 tons of fixed nitrogen guaranteed, and right of Government to take over project without guaranteeing company against loss...