Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years hundreds of chemists have been trying to solve one of organic chemistry's toughest problems: artificial synthesization of a compound with all the biological (and hence medical) properties of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). Last week the University of Pittsburgh announced that a research team headed by Dr. Klaus Hofmann, 49, had turned the trick...
...example of how the course might integrate the various branches of chemistry, Westheimer explained that the physical chemistry of distillation could be studied in conjunction with the organic chemistry problem of obtaining a pure compound...
...comment, but a Navy man said admiringly: "They do write good letters down in Muscat." Fact is the British Consul General has little else to do, apart from requesting manumission for escaping slaves, who by tradition become entitled to freedom if they can manage to enter his compound and clasp both hands around his flagpole...
Crassus, actually only a competitor for the consulship while Spartacus was on the loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, upheld the importance of increasing economic growth. Because growth rates add up like compound interest, he said, a four per cent annual increase results in a 141 per cent rise in twenty years, while a two per cent growth brings only a 50 per cent increase in the same period...