Word: react
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost books can be successfully recovered without recourse to the general search. It is, furthermore, inexcusable to permit irresponsible undergraduates covertly to ransack a fellow House member's quarters. To innocent tenants such an intrusion represents a complete negation of privacy. The performance of the malodorous office may conceivably react tragically upon the character and outlook of a youthful and malleable agent; to those less scrupulous it will present the opportunity of a life-time...
...layer of mercury, the anode of a delicately balanced electrical system. Cathode of the system is a column of mercury which flows by separate drops (two to three seconds apart) into the substance to be analyzed. The current which flows through the system increases steadily by definite increments. Substances react in a regular way to the current. By means of a mirror galvanometer, the polarograph marks a chart when reactions occur. Professor Heyrovsky & colleagues have prepared scores of polarograph charts. Every user of a polarograph furnishes charts of more substances. By comparing the chart of an unknown substance with available...
...sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech...
...research laboratories (TIME, Nov. 14). As such Director Coolidge is Laureate Langmuir's boss. Precisely, Dr. Langmuir received his award for "pioneer work in surface chemistry." This refers to his useful concept of the arrangement and orientation of molecules at the surface of objects-how, for example, gases react at the surface of a hot tungsten wire. This led him directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes...
Oysters make both Oriental and Mikimoto pearls. When Mother Nature annoys an oyster by permitting a tiny bit of some irritating substance to get under its shell, the oyster reacts by covering this substance with layer on layer of pearly nacre, and the result is called an Oriental pearl. When Mr. Mikimoto annoys the oysters in his 41,000 acres of oyster beds by having a minute substance delicately inserted in the body of each oyster, the oysters react by producing about $1,000,000 worth of Mikimoto pearls a year. In gratitude Mr. Mikimoto has erected a monument...