Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that only an eagle eye can spot them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses "prevulcanized liquid latex," a creamy rubber compound, which can be tinted delicately before it hardens...
...British chemist named Greville Williams broke down natural rubber by distillation, obtained a hydrocarbon compound called isoprene. In 1882 William Tilden, also of Britain, made isoprene by .racking turpentine vapor in a red-hot tube...
...made one last plea for speed: "Immense values are at stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle...
Crucially dependent on chemistry is quantity production of high explosives. When World War I broke out, Britain's standard propellant for shells was cordite, a nitroglycerin-nitrocellulose compound whose manufacture requires acetone. Best-known way of making acetone was to distill wood-a costly, low-yield process. When British cordite production hopped up to 4,000,000 lb. a week, all the wood in the world began to look meagre and the War Office was desperate. Acetone was skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into...