Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmitter was made in which a diaphragm of goldbeater's skin was attached to a wire which in turn was dipped in dilute sulphuric acid. With no idea whether the transmitter was good or bad, the two experimenters installed a line connecting the front and back rooms. Watson went to the front room, took up his post at the receiver. In his excitement, Bell in the back room drenched his clothes with acid spilled froma battery. He called into the transmitter: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Trembling with jubilation Watson rushed to the back room crying...
...roots of this problem are as deep as our civilization. One often feels that the only remedy would be a series of drownings in sulphuric acid or of suffocations in library dust. Nevertheless, much progress has been made here at Harvard. The rules of distribution, even when most burdensome, do force the student to give grudging attention to fields other than his own. The tutors, if men of sufficient breadth, serve as an antidote to intolerance. Most valuable, however, is the work of the few professors who, being scientists, have a background of wide culture or who, as humanists, realize...
...There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath a wad of bloody cotton. A downy mustache was on its upper lip and four finger tips had been scarred by file and acid. But by prints of the unscarred fingers police quickly assured themselves that the round, blank face, now horribly contorted, was that of "Baby Face" Nelson. In Cook County's morgue his body was stretched on the same rubber slab which had held John Dillinger just 130 days before. Newsreels touched...
Scientific apparatus will be taken which will permit a detailed study of the respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, exertion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observations will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11.000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,600 feet, 19600 feet and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at attitude greater 20,000 feet...
...when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water. As the biggest manufacturer of fire engines and apparatus in the U. S., American-La France & Foamite Corp. has for years supplied nearly every important municipality...