Word: content
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scientists experimented with dogs, gave some of them injections of anterior pituitary extract until their islets were worn out and their insulin content very low. Then they fed one set of animals a normal diet. Set No 2 got no food for several days. Set No. 3 got only fats. Set No. 4 got insulin and a normal amount of carbohydrates. Results: the first group developed severe diabetes; the others soon returned to normal insulin production and good health. Fasting and fat-feeding, as well as insulin injections, said the doctors, "allow the pancreatic islets to rest," give them time...
Crimson yachtsmen were unable to cope with the high wind on the Charles River Basin yesterday, and were forced to be content with third place behind M.I.T. and Princeton in the Quadrangular Regatta for the Jack Wood Trophy...
Solar observations made at the Harvard weather station include measurement of the intensity of solar radiation on a horizontal plane and on a plane perpendicular to the sun's rays, and also study of the dust and moisture content of the atmosphere...
...Word of God, but American Lutherans believe it more literally. A joint commission on closer union ("pulpit and altar fellowship") had devised a formula which it hoped both could accept: "By virtue of a unique operation of the Holy Spirit, by which He supplied to the holy writers content and fitting word, the separate books of the Bible are related to one another, and, taken together, constitute a complete, errorless, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre...
...Plaster of Paris absorbs moisture, and the wetter it gets, the lower its electrical resistance. Dr. George John Bouyoucos of Michigan State College made use of this principle in a handy gadget which tells farmers the moisture content of their fields. Blocks of plaster of Paris the size of safety-match boxes are buried with wires leading to the surface. The wetter the soil, the lower the resistance of the buried blocks. Measurements can be taken by merely hooking the surface wires to a Wheatstone bridge, which measures the electrical resistance. By burying a number of plaster blocks...