Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tools: an 8-lb. sledge hammer with a loin. handle, two drift-pins, two chisels, 100 fuse-type blasting caps and four electric blasting caps with wires. He tapped the battery in the breast pocket of his leather jacket and hoped he wouldn't have to use it, because a well-grounded safe man hates to blast; it is a matter of professional pride...
...seems to me that Mrs. Perle Mesta could find something more to do with her money than use it for social splurges in our nation's capital . . . with conditions as they are in Europe...
...began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went on to find others, and to collect some top scientific honors...
...rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...
During vacation, Lamont Library will operate on a 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. schedule. Books on reserve can be taken out for overnight use at 4 p.m. they must be back by 9 a.m. the next morning. There will be no change in the Widener schedule...