Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material, or catalyst, as it is called, which causes the nitrogen in the air to combine with other substances, especially hydrogen, with greater case and efficiency than has hitherto been the case. Where the catalysts used in other processes will produce 7 or 8 percent of ammonia, this new compound will yield 14 percent, and it has been run continuously for six months without deterioration...
...that the parasite (try-panasoma gambiense) was communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved." Sleeping sickness is a kind of malaria. The remedy-"Bayer 205"-is first dissolved in water, then injected...
Saint Joan. A curiously conglomerate compound is this latest Shaw play which the Theatre Guild brought out last week in the most gorgeous of red, gray and gold bindings. Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist. Some of them are born of Shaw's inevitable penchant for controversial conversation. Christianity is alternately belabored and immortalized. History is consistently in caricature. These moods and many more are bundled into three full hours of changing action. Viewed as a whole, the play tantalizes. It is a stimulant and a drug mixed...
...their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...
...such a case the only hope for a theatrical biography is the quickening touch of recognition. If the audience can greet the players as old friends come suddenly to life a judicious compound of well remembered actions salted with a pinch of novelty may claim sustained attention. Unfortunately, Northerners know of Lee only such fragmentary crystals as remain from the precipitations of early education; Southerners know far more about Lee than any but a Southerner can ever learn...