Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months this raw civilian material - an ex-coxswain of the Harvard crew, a Yale-and Virginia-weaned son of a Manhattan broker, a Rollins College tennis player - had been ground and polished into finished products. Their juts of individualism had been smoothed off, the working equipment of an aviator, the military mold and manners of an officer, fitted...
...real interests are not primarily in the number and sizes of communities but in the laws governing the conservation of energy in the processing of raw materials and in the distribution of finished goods within a social-economic system. . . . The number and sizes of a nation's . . . communities may reflect the economy with which that nation processes and distributes its consumable goods...
...Alcoa wastefully ships raw materials and finished products: bauxite from the Guianas and Arkansas to East St. Louis, alumina from there to Vancouver, ingots from Vancouver back to the East, rolled sheets from the East back to California, all costing 2? a lb. for freight alone...
...anti-Communist Unoccupied France, Vichy officials hailed the Nazi attack as a timely move toward Russian raw materials necessary for the construction of the European "New Order...
Hitch was that both the raw materials of photosynthesis, H 2 O and CO 2 , contain identical oxygen atoms. There was no way of telling them apart. So Ruben obtained heavy oxygen-a rare isotope which has a mass of 18 instead of the normal atomic weight of 16-and made from it heavy-oxygen water. This was fed to a green plant, together with ordinary, light-oxygen carbon dioxide. As photosynthesis proceeded, the scientists caught the freed oxygen, found it was the heavy variety. Next they fed the plant light-oxygen water and heavy-oxygen carbon dioxide...