Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Junior Barbara Wriston, who preferred Oberlin to Lawrence. At the same time, Oberlin appointed as consulting architect to supervise a $230,000 centennial building program an old Oberlin boy, Richard Kimball of Manhattan's Kimball & Husted. Chief building Architect Kimball will be concerned with is a physical education unit for women...
...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing of each horse's name from the little drum. When the race is over, holders of tickets on the winner get $150,000 each. Second place ticket...
Anatomists and physicians have known a good deal of all this since 1628, when William Harvey published his De Motu Cordis. But enough remained unknown to cause Dr. Miller 47 years of research. It was he who discovered the lungs' atria. He proved that the significant unit of lung architecture is the lobule. He systematized the whole lung anatomy, rationalized its physiology. He anatomized the tubercle of Ghon, the spot in the lung from which certain cases of pulmonary tuberculosis develop in children. He guided a former assistant, Professor Olof Larsell of the University of Oregon, in mapping...
Trane Co. makes virtually every type of air-conditioning equipment except a heating unit, its specialty being the coils which it supplies to other air conditioners, including General Electric. Trane systems have been used on such major jobs as the New York Life Insurance Co. building in Manhattan, Wrigley Tower and Sears, Roebuck's building in Chicago, the House of Representatives office building and Supreme Court building in Washington...