Word: ti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried on the liability side of the balance sheet. Most companies that have done this are holding companies or investment trusts. Other companies have used some surplus to write down such assets as plants. By doing this they express plants at their true value and do not have ti deduct such large depreciation charges from earnings in subsequent years...
Leave of absence has been granted to W. L. Langer, associate professor of History, and to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, for the academic year 1932-33, in order that each may carry on research work under a grant from the Bureau of International Research. Kuang-Ti Mei, assistant professor of Chinese, will be absent for the academic year...
...Japanese commander, General Uyeda, was personally desperate. He knew he might have to commit hara-kiri if his offensive got much further behind schedule, and during the first 18 hours he changed his General Staff Headquarters three times: 1) a Japanese cotton mill; 2) a Chinese cottage; 3) Ti Futan University...
...smokescreen was made, as usual, with titanium tetrachloride. It is carried in liquid form, in tanks specially installed in the airplane. When the pilot operates a valve, air is forced into the tank by the speed of the plane in flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth...
...name of His Majesty is Prajadhipok, easily pronounced with accent on the second syllable pra-chatī-ti-pok. Like nearly all Siamese the King is a Buddhist, officially Defender of the Faith...