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Dean Lyons' prescription: brush the teeth (salt and soda will do for a dentifrice) within "split minutes" after every meal, because sugar left in the mouth changes into acids within half an hour at most. "Carrying toothbrushes around ought to be just as acceptable as carrying combs, lipstick and powder...
...split-second technicians have taken over an old slang word to describe their work. In the language of the laboratory, a shake is now a precise interval, meaning one hundred-millionth of a second...
...Bender Report is an integrated program, and it is unfortunate that the Faculty had to split it up; but it will be even more unfortunate if the Faculty--for-getting the deficiencies of the first half--leaves the very same deficiencies in the second half...
Fitting the commuters into the House system has not been stymied by lack of room and funds alone. There is a fundamental philosophic split between Dean Bender and Charles W. Duhig '29, who for over 10 years was graduate secretary at Dudley...
...share. Iran's slice for 1950 was $45 million in royalties. If Iran had accepted the company's 1949 proposal to increase royalties, Iran's 1950 royalties would have been $94 million. This year, said Sir William, under a new proposal for a 50-50 profit split, Iran would have received about $140 million. In short, with oil and money so plentiful, Anglo-Iranian might well have averted the trouble in Iran by a more liberal use of American-style industrial statesmanship...