Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great, rusty T-shaped giant. The top of the T ran from Philadelphia to Washington. The stem split, one line reaching out to Chicago, the other ending just over the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Corporate headquarters were at the top of the stem, in Baltimore...
...that. One of your heroes-Nathan Hale-said he regretted he had but one life to give for his country. Had I a thousand lives I would give them for India's independence. It is difficult to convince you Occidentals that nothing short of independence will stem my countrymen's passions...
...American Physical Society, meeting in Chicago, heard Professor Charles Tobias Knipp describe a new kind of electric light which may bring lamplighters back, set them to lighting lamps with electricity once every six months. Professor Knipp had made a flask of pyrex glass of 22-litre capacity, with a stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire to a 25,000-volt high-frequency generator. There was a flash, then the bulb began...
...almost the exact centre of the human head, hanging from the base of the brain by a hollow stem, is the pituitary gland. Normally about the size of a large pea, in giants it may be as big as a hen's egg. It has two lobes, anterior & posterior. Like other endocrine glands it secretes hormones (exciters) into the blood. Doctors know less than they would like to know about the pituitary gland. They know it is intimately related to growth and sexual maturity; they believe its hormones regulate the functioning of all the other endocrines. Last week came...
...Clark, suspected book thief who later described to police inspectors a book racket of thefts totalling $500,000 has definite bearing on the situation of losses at the Harvard College Library, and new developments in the case it is hoped will enable Harvard authorities to stem the losses of books that take place yearly...