Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists and technicians, live there. The plant stretches over 250 acres, contains more than 300 buildings, 16 mi. of railroad track. From 125 wells which look like oil wells come the salts from which Dow refines the ele ments of bromine, chlorine, iodine and magnesium, then makes the chemical compound's which reach the consumer under a hundred different names...
...long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded a higher return...
There is perhaps no deed of Cyrano de Bergerac, that redoubtable French anticipation and compound of Babe Ruth, George Washington and Dr. Sarkas, which has so endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...
...quick call for reinforcements brought out the men who apparently are retained just to wait for such an occurance, complete with a gasoline compound known in technical terms as aluminum paint remover. By 8 o'clock the next morning all was dull bronze again save for a suspicious silver daub on one foot, and due to Harvard's well-known aversion to early rising, nobody was the wiser...
Last week a company called Parabond Corp. of America, in Cambridge, Mass., disclosed its novel solution, which has been adopted by Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Parabond is a rubber latex compound poured into the expansion joints, where it jells. To prevent the usual separation from the concrete, it has a strong adhesive mixture. To prevent bulging, it is thickly interlarded with puffed wheat. The porous globules of puffed wheat constitute bubbles in the mixture, permitting the latex to give without forming a ridge across the highway...