Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh won a Nobel Prize in 1920 for his studies on the mechanism of blood supply to muscles, showing that a muscle's capillaries work in squads or shifts, most of them remaining closed when the muscle is resting. His great work on respiration, published in...
Dr. Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes in 200...
The bartender pointed a long finger of condemnation at the proctor. "Nope," he stated with authority, "higher education don't pay." The issue was settled once and for all.
Zimmerman in an interview pointed out that besides breeding a chameleon-like teacher who colors his instruction to suit his contemporaries, excessive desire for popularity results in a brand of presentation which can be easily subjected to propaganda purposes.
The shooting is over. Freshmen will not troop past the polls today as the by-laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are...