Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awed, TIME concedes that the weight of evidence lies with Anthropologist White; reaffirms its decision to use the form "spit-&-image" when occasion demands; drops this controversy...
Finishing up the University Handicap Track Meet, runners and jumpers today compete in the remaining nine events. Tuesday, under the supervision of Coaches Mikkola and Neufeld, four events, the 36 pound weight, the pole vault, the high jump, and the shot put were...
Steve Brennan, Varsity weight man, won the 35 pound weight throw at 48 feet two inches. With handicaps, Robert Sears '40, Gale Arnold '39 and Bill Shallow '40 followed respectively. The high jump was won by Freshman Robert Partlow with a jump of five feet, eight inches. Following him came Dave Wilson '40, Guill Aertsen '40, and Jim Grover...
Strangest of Mr. Teale's beasts: the aphid (plant louse), which reproduces by parthenogenesis (without mating), gives birth to males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
...Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name for the double-weight hydrogen atom] is correctly formed from the Greek deuteros, 'second,' but the Greek for 'third' is tritos, not triteros. The name which corresponds properly with 'deuterium' is clearly 'tritium,' and this word is already...