Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some to rest upon the surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear of injury to the mosquitoes...
...long ago President Millerand threatened to resign if the Bloc National were defeated. The transfer of some 100 votes to the Radicals and Socialists leaves the Bloc in a minority and critics were wondering if the President would carry out his threat. A Socialist régime would in no way suit M. Millerand's policy of active participation in governing France...
...Syrian and Mesopotamian frontier. Georgians are forbidden the Kars and Ardahan eastern frontier, near Georgia. Greeks are restricted to Constantinople. Only Kurds are allowed villages speaking their own language. In other villages, non-Turkish minorities are restricted to 10%. Even gypsies are restricted to certain assigned districts. The total transfer of population involved is under...
...Wang, who graduated from Yale in 1910, has served as Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry and Deputy Speaker of the Senate in China. Chinese Delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference and head of the commission to settle the details of the transfer of Shantung: and Director of the Rehabilitation of Shantung Rights...
...atomic theory and its relation to heat, since burning involves the transfer of electrons from one atom to another," said Professor Lamb, "will form the basis for the new discoveries in the chemical constitution of heat which are sure to be made in the near future...