Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further, more realistic precaution against "Dutch courage," junior officers in the Royal Air Force are allowed only a "strictly limited" amount of wine. Bars in flying schools are now closed all day, treating is banned in messes and drinks are forbidden in private rooms. Penalty for breaking these rules: court-martial...
...that is the reason"--this with an unusual amount of energy--"why I say there is no Harvard Man." The Vagabond whipped out the last two words with capitals, putting them in vocal italics. He was warming to his subject now, growing the warmer as the circle around him grew the larger. Pleased and flattered, he, the center of attention for once. These newcomers. He knew a few things which they did not. And they seemed willing to listen...
...drop of blood is taken from the finger tip of a cancer suspect. The blood is dissolved in a small amount of lukewarm sterile water, mixed with copper chloride and spread on a glass microscope slide to crystallize. Healthy blood forms a green crystal pattern which, under a microscope, looks like a delicate, fan-shaped palm leaf. But in cancerous blood some unknown chemical forms a pattern of scattered, double-wing bow ties. In 1,000 trials on known cancer victims, said Drs. Pfeiffer and Miley, the copper test was 80% accurate...
...Council is hoping to raise $10,000, but if the amount is to reach that figure, the remaining upperclassman have to subscribe more heavily than those who registered on Saturday. Making up about one-fourth of the college, they contributed only about one-sixth of the goal, Phil Neal '40, president of the Student Council, pointed out last night...
Because of the much increased amount of time that a student has to put on his work, the competition routine has been out down a great deal, and instead of causing men's marks to fall, has in many cases aided with their work as it provided a regulating influence without which they would have been lost in the first few months of college...