Word: connectent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brazing alloy (with copper and zinc) to connect joints: it is workable at relatively low temperatures which do not injure the metals joined...
...struck gold on Butte Hill a few years before the hill's true wealth-copper -was discovered. But more than one Butte citizen could recall the icy December day in 1881 when an old-fashioned locomotive huffed & puffed up the newly completed Utah & Northern narrow-gauge railroad to connect Butte with Ogden, Utah (and the outside world) by rail...
...highly controversial subject of treatment with drugs and surgery, Dr. Page has liberal views. He believes that it often helps to give potassium thiocyanate (which reduces blood pressure and stops hypertensive headaches), remove a diseased kidney (but be sure it is the right one) or cut the nerves that connect the abdominal blood vessels with the nervous system. Dr. Page modestly dismisses as still an unproved experiment his own discovery-a kidney extract injected to counteract angiotonin (TIME, March 3, 1941)-although it has effected some remarkable cures...
Last month RFC lent $1,300,000 to Metals Reserve Corp. to drill the rest of a tunnel to connect up the Barstow mine (once owned by Harry Payne Whitney), the Black Bear (once Rockefeller's) and adjacent mines. All these properties are now owned by Idarado Corp. and have been leased to Metals Reserve on a royalty basis. In addition to lead and copper, the Government especially hopes to get 5,600 tons of zinc the first year. Long John's tunneling tempo was needed again...
...paper cheerily enough, but we never meet except here . I thought that perhaps, like earthworms, the Soil Engineers only came out of the ground when it rained. But last Tuesday I found out the practical reason why Soil Engineering and Electronics are so closely united. I wanted to connect a cathode to ground, and I didn't know where to hook the wire, when along came a Soil Engineer with a new kind of circuit element which he said was "ground...