Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current history as well as that of 1931. For this reason it is to be expected that in the volume of the year 1932, the collaborators will be able to continue the points that are cited in the first book of this series, or better still, in the exible shape of scholarship, revise opinions expressed therein with knowledge of what has come after...
...kill germs, insects, rodents and other animals. It is also used for embalming, tanning, printing textiles, dyeing furs, purifying gold, etching metals. As an antiseptic it is useful but dangerous. Hence the Pharmacopoeia commands that tablets of bichloride of mercury intended for antiseptic use be "of an angular shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing...
...Harvard Observatory has received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman...
...time they penetrate the earth's layer of atmosphere. The meteorite discovered by Admiral Peary on his North Pole Expedition in 1909 is of the metallic type, composed of 95 per cent iron and a small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...
Much of the work of the Model Assembly is done in Committees, which whip into shape subjects to be discussed at the Plenary Sessions of the Assembly proper. From Harvard, Messrs. Rubin, Shuebruck, Daniels, Loring and Portal are working upon problems incidental to the task of disarmament. Messrs. Furlong, Blinn, Hoffman, Davis, and Kersten are studying the question of revision of treaties, with especial reference to the pressing dispute over the Polish Corridor. Economic problems, with emphasis laid upon debts, reparations, and tariffs, will be considered...