Word: semifluid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provided the subject is given an adequate rest period away from these atmospheres." But people who live in damp and dirty cities have no such assurance, because ''it seems possible that a moist atmosphere might tend to agglomerate particles of suitable dusts, and turn them into a semifluid, which could interfere with ciliary action...
...Tethys Deep" was bridged by Central America was indicated by Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra. With the cooling and shrinking of earth's underlying shell of magmatic (semifluid) rock, the northern and southern land masses drew toward each other. Pinched between them, the bottom of the "Tethys Deep" wrinkled, bulged upward, finally, as the pressure increased, emerged from the water to form a bridge...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...