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Payroll taxes, he explained, are really loans at interest, which are paid back after the war, and serve to cut down consumer demand now and increase it when it is needed. This is a variant of the Keynes Plan, in effect in England...
...There is no cure for diabetes, but it can be throttled by injections of insulin. "Straight"' insulin usually is taken three times a day, before each meal. Protamine zinc insulin, a slow-acting variant, is injected in a larger dose only once a day. (Scientists are working hard on an insulin preparation that can be taken by mouth, but so far have been unsuccessful.) Some doctors prefer to treat mild forms of the disease by restricting carbohydrates...
Strictly, a square dance is a quadrille, descended by way of England from the early French court ballet. The quadrille, with its basic pattern of four couples forming a hollow square, spread from the original colonies throughout the land, acquired many a variant in technique and nomenclature. But everywhere the dance has a caller, an inventive, leather-lunged, cool-headed master of ceremonies who calls out the figures-swing your partner, dose-do (dos-a-dos or back to back), allemande, chassez (sashay), promenade, etc. As anyone knows who has ever tried it without prior training, a "set" of three...
...Polymorphous-i.e., varying radically in form from season to season (like insects which are now egg, now worm, now butterfly). Plants once classed as unrelated proved to be variant forms of one species. And as a fungus changed form, it often changed the host it preyed upon...
Natural uranium exists in three isotopes (variant forms) weighing 238, 235 and 234 units. Experiments showed that U-235 held out the most promise of a "chain reaction" (continuous energy release). But U-235 comprises less than 1% of the natural element, so the problem was to isolate...