Word: supplanters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term " kilocycle " will eventually supplant " wavelength " in the jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...
...more than two dozen patients at Beth Israel Hospital, where Dr. Kahn is director of laboratories and attending physician for diseases of metabolism. It alleviated all the cases, some of which were in the final coma, and succeeded in some where insulin had failed. It is not expected to supplant insulin, however, for the two treatments proceed from different principles, insulin being injectel hypodermically to reduce the blood sugar, and intarvin being fed by mouth to prevent acidosis. The first pound of intarvin, made in Professor McKee's laboratory, cost $300 to manufacture, but it is now being made...
...that two new super- dreadnaughts, the Colorado and West Virginia, will be put into commission on Aug. 30. These are the last two ships of their kind which will be built in this country for ten years, under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The West Virginia and Colorado will supplant the Delaware and North Dakota, which will be scrapped...
...days later the question of Cappellini's election was acted upon. He was formally declared President, without opposition. On August 1, Cappellini will take office and supplant Brennan on the subcommittee which is negotiating for a new wage agreement with the anthracite mine operators. He will take his seat with good will in his heart and some obligations to John L. Lewis, his leader...
About 40 anthracite miners' and 25 mine operators' representatives met to consider the demands which the United Mine Workers (Districts 1, 7 and 9) are making for a new contract to supplant the present one expiring on August 31 (TIME, July 9). The conference opened at Atlantic City. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, led the miners. The Presidents of each of the Districts were present also, and with William J. Brennan, the head of District 1, was Rinaldo Cappellini, the young and fiery President-elect...