Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good showing. Of the 58,000 chemists who might have come, 2,321 crystallized in Washington last week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. As at most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching on nearly every chemical compound that can be put into a test tube. They heard about hydrazine and dithiooximide and triacetyl-aldehyde-L-erythrose. The learned speakers told how to keep plastic shower curtains from smelling bad and how to keep cattle from getting arthritis...
...MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such musicals as The Love Parade and The Merry Widow, probably had some good idea what he was about when he picked Betty (Lubitsch died before it was finished and Director Otto Preminger took over). Betty plays a sort of royal compound of Russia's Catherine, Sweden's Christina and the cutie behind the cosmetic counter...
...Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...
...wall and ceiling began to crash about us. We staggered for doors and windows, knocking into each other and falling to the floor. The driveway before the building buckled up before me as I bounced over it, while concrete slabs thudded down from above. We flung ourselves on the compound lawn, but the earth shook so violently that some of us were jerked upright and bounced about like popcorn...
Into the Moat. The fire finally drove us into the walled, moated compound of the old palace, which now houses government offices. Across the moat an Army gasoline dump went up, shooting gasoline barrels a thousand feet into the air to start new fires wherever they landed. The palace wall, which in its three centuries had withstood American bombs as well as earthquakes, toppled into the moat...