Word: compressive
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...based upon one type of a process of refining crude oil known as "cracking the molecules." The heavy oil is pumped through a steel-pipe coil, the interior of which is kept at about 900° F. heat and under great pressure. Dubbs's invention: making the oil compress itself. Suddenly this heated and compressed oil passes into an insulated chamber. There it breaks down into gasoline. The latest Dubbs "cracking" unit will convert 3,000 bbl. of oil per day, making 60% or more high-test antiknock motor fuel...
...times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...
Finally the afflicted French Foreign Minister retired to his bed in the Hotel des Bergues with a compress over both eyes. Into his bedroom came, daily, for conference, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain These "Big Three," putting their heads together, and occasionally calling in lesser statesmen for political consultation, virtually made up last week, the Council of the League of Nations. . . . Their problems...
...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...multitudinous apologies to Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne, now in this city, for printing on the front page yesterday morning an Associated Press despatch that contained about as many errors as it would be possible to compress in the short space it occupied...