Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Clark anticipated his critics with an analysis of all the other amendments in an effort to prove that the 18th constituted such a large and extraordinary a grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
...alcohol by weight equals about 3.8% by volume...
Petticoat Influence has very little weight but is deft and amusing. With tongue well in cheek, it sets out to have a few quiet laughs at the British Foreign office, the vanity and complacence of the male, the intuitive cunning of the female...
...Hutchison's motive was to help airmen, his invention may have the far more momentous effect of overcoming the carbon monoxide (CO) evil in motor car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which can be car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which is a bridge of platinum and nickel wires (weight i½ Ib.) over which the exhaust gases pass. This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires...