Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
...University of California, Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, plant physiologist, took a chunk of pre-Cambrian rock. The piece came from Canada. Geologists considered it 100 to 200 million years old. Professor Lipman split the chunk and from the fractured surfaces scraped what he hoped were primeval microbes...
Boarding the S. S. De Grasse, Editor White said: "That's the longest gangplank in the world.* Three seconds after I cross it I'll be 3,000 miles away from the whole mess." Editor White was bound for Paris, with Mrs. White and a "chunk of money." He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political...
...Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull...