Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...denaturant: alcotate. It will not kill or blind but will render industrial alcohol exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...
...Only legitimate savings banks may use the word "savings." Their investments are subject to rigid requirements. Commercial banks have "thrift accounts" or "compound interest ac-counts," are not required to treat the funds differently from ordinary deposits, hence use them in the conduct of general business...
IHAVE tried to be accurate without being tiresome and technical, and I have tried to be as unprejudiced as is possible to a grandson and nephew of Confederate officers and soldiers, but I learned fairly late in life that Damyank was a compound word. What I have attempted is not a history of a war, but a portrait of a splendid human soul, expressed through the profession of arms...
...fantastic mineral. The Eskimos thought that cryolite, which means "frost stone," was a mysterious kind of ice. It looks like ice, melts readily in a candle flame into something which especially puzzled Eskimos because it is not water. Found in Greenland, cryolite is a compound of fluorine, sodium and aluminium, is used commercially as a flux in smelting aluminium...
...phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years increase in distance from the earth, he discovered a 100-mi.-per-sec. increase in the speed of receding stars. Occasional...