Word: boils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vagabond, hearkening to the past, set about his brewing. The honey stuck up the kitchen a good deal, and the bruised ginger root gave off an aroma that corroborated the statement of the Latin ponies. And there was another difficulty, the directions said to boil the concoction for a half hour stirring the while. The Vagabond had conjured up lovely visions of leaning over a gurgling caldron, much as Merlin might have done. But as the minutes passed failure dwelt hard upon their tracks. No while arose...
...exceptional gravity. What a fine peace organization that is!" Army Out of Hand? Meantime, the Japanese armies continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down to a struggle in Japanese politics, upon the outcome of which hinged the peace of the Orient...
...Democratic national pot came to a brief hard boil in the ornate dining room of Washington's fashionable Mayflower Hotel one day last week. Then it settled down to a long sullen simmer. The fire under the pot was, as usual, Prohibition...
...electric dishwashers, waffle irons, toasters, hydraulic elevators, steam plate warmers, salad and plate coolers, four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper and a special vegetable cooker...
...them. Great pumps are used to suck up cold water, 40º F., through a mile-long tube from the bottom of Matanzas Bay. Warm surface water, 80º F., rushes through other pipes into a large vacuum tank. When a liquid is kept under low pressure, it will boil at temperatures much lower than 212º F. The pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give off steam. When he finished his explanation, he pressed a switch, started his sea-machine to work. Shortly the steam...