Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, brought to boil by President Roosevelt's refusal to allow draft deferments for premedical students under 26, Publisher Cissie let go a characteristic kidney-punch. She filled a page with a signed editorial and pictures of 20 young (24 to 37) career men of the State Department "who do not choose to fight...
...using high-frequency currents to boil penicillin solutions, R.C.A.'s Dr. George Harold Brown can dehydrate the drug in 30 minutes, compared with the 24 hours required by the freeze-drying process now in use. Dr. Brown boils the solution at 50° F. in a low vacuum (penicillin disintegrates at high temperatures). This takes out about 90% of the moisture. A few minutes of freeze-drying finishes...
...Quickest way to make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...
...rest of the room a vacuum. Or (a somewhat less unlikely possibility) a group of molecules might fall into an introverted pattern of collisions that would concentrate energy at a particular point. In that case, a bowl of soup might spill itself or a highball might spontaneously begin to boil...
...that time the whole U.S. may come to a boil...