Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Cambridge businessmen aren't especially alarmed. There are a number of factors which seemingly discount the Lever action. And if there is any pronounced economic slump in Cambridge, only small retail merchants, whose sales have been dropping, will admit...
Chain Reaction. A small problem often leads to much bigger ones. For example, the job of streamlining International Harvester's tractors led to designing a distinctive new building (1,125 have been built) in which to sell them...
...speed of Giacobinid meteors is rather accurately known: 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) per second. Working theoretically, Whipple figured out what would happen to a very small particle hitting the thin top of the atmosphere at this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...
Speaking about the small number of dormitory lounges, Dean Robert W. Kenny said that they were "unsatisfactory because students used the lounges as an intermediate station to get girls into their rooms...