Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magnesium sphere surrounds a canister of instruments, batteries and components of the small radio transmitter that will send information back to earth. When ready for space, the magnesium will be plated, first with gold, then with aluminum, then with a final thin layer of a silicon compound. Small amounts of gold will be used as solder to stick the magnesium and aluminum together...
...speech also criticized the proposal to build the Harvard Theatre on land adjacent to the Fogg Museum. He said that the Theatre would compound the already difficult traffic problem on Quincy St. and would take up land that would be needed for Fogg's ultimate expansion...
Chink. In Dallas, officers of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard complained to police that prowlers kept entering the division motor compound and taking joy rides in jeeps...
...passage is unusually prolonged by the very nature of college life, and such an over-extension of this transitional period only serves to compound and intensify the emotional problems and strains which are naturally associated with...
...vocabulary is kept as small as it is by the adroit combination of ideas. Thus, a garage is rendered in Picto as a house for autos, a restaurant as a house for eating, a movie theater as a house for film. Thus equipped, Picto can indulge in compound and complex sentences: 0- -» O X | 2 Q A. ~ O (During the bloody impacts in A, yesterday many people were wounded and a dance hall was set on fire...