Word: caustically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bush Leagues & Bonuses. All over the country, college coaches echo Bibb's caustic comments. Things were bad enough when the major leagues paid polite lip service to their own rule forbidding dickering with collegians between sophomore year and graduation. But even that rule has been rescinded. Some 35% of the players on today's big-league clubs started their careers on college campuses. Some, like the Chicago Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark...
...industry is rising in three phases. From the first, to be completed this year, will emerge a plant that can make fertilizer, chlorine and caustic soda. The second will bring in the production of explosives, for military and civilian use, and insecticides. The third will move the petrochemical industry by 1960 into synthetic rubber and plastics...
...first natural gas was arriving through a 24-in. pipe from eastern Venezuela. With $60 million spent, construction was well along on the cracking and fractioning units that will turn the hydrogen in gas and the nitrogen in air into ammonia, the basic component of fertilizer. The chlorine-caustic-soda plant was nearly finished, will start trial production this month. Aluminum-hatted straw bosses supervised the building of a city on a leveled area big enough to house 100,000 people eventually...
...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...
...DRANO (caustic soda): drink lots of water or milk, counteract the alkali with a weak acid such as diluted vinegar, lemon or orange juice...