Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic mineral. The Eskimos thought that cryolite, which means "frost stone," was a mysterious kind of ice. It looks like ice, melts readily in a candle flame into something which especially puzzled Eskimos because it is not water. Found in Greenland, cryolite is a compound of fluorine, sodium and aluminium, is used commercially as a flux in smelting aluminium...
...phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years increase in distance from the earth, he discovered a 100-mi.-per-sec. increase in the speed of receding stars. Occasional...
...double acid itself, and so more easily administered, is the sodium salt of this new acid. Tried out on dogs the Wrenshall acid, he reported, proved some six times more therapeutically active than the older ethyl-esters. The Territorial board of health decided to use at once the acid compound on human lepers...
Eyes of the World (United Artists). Transcription of a novel by Harold Bell Wright, this cinema is a compound of a half-dozen violently familiar melodramas. Among the complications moves an unhappy woman who always wears a black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks...
...subsidiaries. For, after bringing United Drug and Sterling products together, Mr. Liggett quickly bought the companies which make Life Savers candies, Three-in-One oil, Ipana toothpaste, Sal Hepatica. Ingram's shaving cream, Fletcher's Castoria, Dr. W. B. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin & Herb Laxative Compound, Andrews Liver Salts...