Word: causticity
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...information concerning all the "proper" rendezvous and careful analyses of the local college women. But already rising in righteous indignation the college women of Boston and the environs have hurried vindictive cries of derision upon the all-knowing authors and the wary Freshman will do well to consider their caustic criticism...
...nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide. Aboard the Terminal last week this fantastic diving suit was called "Eleanor...
...keep the proposal secret, until it had been passed upon in accordance with customary procedure. It cannot be denied that the Press Agent has a flair for publicity. However, is letter, making the offer is couched in the friendliest of terms, in no sense meriting so curt and caustic a reply. It should be noted that the proposed scholarship was to have been "assigned for work covering one year, six months to be spent in Germany's art center, Munich, the remainder in any other German university...
...nitrocellulose process for making rayon was patented in 1884 by Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, who dissolved nitrocellulose in an organic solvent, forced the solution through fine holes, finally obtaining long fibres which were spun into threads (Tubize). The viscose process (treating cotton with caustic soda and carbon disulphide) was patented eight years later by two U. S. chemists. Later a third method (little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?...
...Clarence Darrow and his special board on the operations of NRA as they affected the small industrialist and businessman was being mimeographed. Also being mimeographed under guard were the dissenting report of John F. Sinclair of Manhattan, newspaper financial columnist and member of the Darrow board, and the caustic retort of General Johnson...