Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost it to Joe Louis last June, pranced out of his corner, began slugging rights & lefts at his opponent. Before Welshman Farr knew what it was all about, the tenth round was over and Jim Braddock was the winner...
...coffee contains about one-tenth of a gram of caffeine. In mild doses, the action of this drug is to step up the pulse rate, increase the flow of blood in the coronary arteries that serve the heart itself, stimulate the thinking areas of the brain, constrict the blood vessels. In a recent paper abstracted last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Robert Louis Levy of Columbia University declared that in certain high-strung individuals under mental or emotional stress, coffee may cause heart pains...
Kline of the Merck & Co. laboratories. From rice polishings it was very expensive but the synthetic manufacture is cheap. Merck & Co. markets the vitamin in one-gram, one-tenth-gram and one-hundredth-gram tablets but does not advertise to the public and sells only to the medical profession. Last week Dr. Jolliffe suggested that liquor makers might put a trace of the vitamin in their products before distributing them, by dissolving a half-milli-gram or so per pint. The cost to the liquor people would not be more than ½? a bottle. Or drinkers might buy their...
Currently headed by Roger Williams Straus, good Jew, Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes of Columbia University, good Catholic, and, until his death last week (see p. 41), by the late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...
...fallacy of this policy appears with the realization that even the tenth Harvard man finishing has a chance of contributing to his team's victory by beating the fifth Eli, boosting the opponents' total to a losing number of points. Thus cross country is a team sport in which every runner's performance may count although he may not have contributed in the point column...