Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climax before extinction, there lived in the sea shallows a big mollusk, Inoceramus, with a shell width up to four feet. Inoceramus was not much different from modern oysters, made pearls the same way-surrounding a foreign irritant inside its shell with concentric layers of the calcium-carbon-oxygen compound called nacre...
...person with a bad compound fracture can usually walk on the iron, with a crutch, about ten days after his accident...
There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...
Buick's five series (Special, Super, Century, Roadmaster, Limited), boast increased power from new "Fireball" engines and compound carburetion. Super-streamlined is the new "Sedanet," two-door, six-passenger coupe-sedan. Prices...
...left to manage his own company. With but $75 in capital he planked a boiler directly on the Indiana-Illinois State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks, a shoe filler (0. E.'s only patent) used by Florsheim to replace felt, an oil compound that gives transparency to one-piece window envelopes, etc. Small but sound, Scientific boasts...