Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
...conclusion reached by Dr. & Mrs. Benedict was that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...
...mere fine of $50," snapped the Division judge, "in a case of this sort is a travesty on justice. I sustain the original decision and increase the penalty by three months imprisonment. Canadian law will not tolerate Klan interference with the rights of Canada's Negro citizens...
Though newsmen could not get the canny Scot to unpurse his "reasons" they passed over the cables his token coins of optimism. Meanwhile the U.S. Congress voted $150,000 to sustain the U.S. delegation at London's Ritz Hotel, when advised by the President that their original appropriation of $200,000 has been spent. Conservative estimates placed the cost to the five powers of achieving what Mr. MacDonald called "Confidence" at roughly $1,000,000, or a trifle over $14 per minute night and day since the conference assembled (TIME...
...undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed by the impersonal magnitude of her hospitality, loses the spontaneity that might have kept the stage from the bottle and thus broken the vicious circle...