Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-Canadian rearmament program was inaugurated last week as the John Inglis Co., Ltd. in Toronto set to work on an $8,000,000 order for 12,000 machine guns. Seven thousand of the guns, light-weight Brens adapted from Czechoslovakia models, will be distributed to the Canadian militia, 5,000 will be shipped to Britain to aid the mother country in her frantic scramble to rearm...
Since no chemist can truly say that he has seen a molecule under the microscope, laymen may be mystified to hear scientific talk of "giant molecules." But molecules, infinitesimally tiny as they are by ordinary standards, vary greatly in size. Molecular weight of ethyl alcohol, for example, is 46 units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs...
...liver tissue which weighs 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 units. This is the biggest molecule ever found to be a normal part of vertebrate animals. It was extracted while Dr. Stern and his co-workers were purifying enzymes in a powerful centrifuge, which separates molecules of mixed weight by whirling them at high speed...
...unit is the weight of the hydrogen atom...
...arts are the gravest sufferers in this respect, as the apathy of the public leads them to accept supinely, as Olympian, the judgments of the numerous committees founded to ferret but and annually reward the best work done. Chief among these, and the one whose decisions carry the most weight with the people, is the Pulitzer Prize Committee...