Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly on this younger generation to which the Great War is only a dim reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus certificates a sum practically equal to what would have been the amount of the bonus if payed in 1926. The Legion, entirely overlooking the compound interest involved in the 1945 payments, asks in effect that the government pay twice as much as it owes...
...nominate a President tell a dour statesman that he lost the nomination and his one chance for national sex appeal when Claudette Colbert refused to marry him. But when they see a medicine show in which a silver-tongued mountebank and his assistant (Jimmy Durante) are selling their medical compound, they see the natural resemblance between the showman (Actor Cohan) and the Statesman (Actor Cohan). They hatch a plan to elect the statesman president on the show-window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture and the former takes...
...University of California Professor W. W. Lepeschkin took living yeast cells into a pitch dark room and killed them. In dying they gave off a short, x-ray-like radiation which affected some silver bromide (ray-testing compound) in the room...
...across Sydney harbor. Three months ago "Sydney's Dream" was opened with official pomp, unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which, if unchecked, must cause the steel deck rapidly to corrode...
...wealth. Quicksilver is a. fickle metal. It is poisonous and those who work with it are usually affected. The pure metal may be absorbed by the skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides...