Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prodigious bended bow the River Congo curves away from the Moon Mountains and flows 3,000 miles across Africa to the Atlantic. Of all rivers whatsoever, only the Amazon, in Brazil, is greater. Every time a second ticks, prodigal Mother Congo empties into the ocean more than a million cubic feet of water. Stopping last week beside a river of such magnitude, Their Belgian Majesties must have given many a thought to the cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians...
...Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each day (15 Ibs. per delegate per day); a heat-resisting roof; eight large fans delivering hourly 36,000,000 cubic feet of air into the hall...
...escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have been so quick, so deadly...
Natural Gas. Of 15 natural gas companies furnishing 16 billion cubic feet of gas each year to 32 communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-Southwest Gas Utilities Corp. was formed. President is Charles G. Laskey, bland, onetime prospector of the district served...
...raged around it. These patients had an abundance of bacteriophages in the intestines, probably because the village drinking water had been accidentally contaminated by the bacteriophages. Dr. d'Herelle systematized these coincidences. He prepared cultures of the bacteriophage from the stools of convalescent patients, transferred 30 to 40 cubic centimetres of the culture to every well in the district, administered several cubic centimetres by mouth to all sufferers repeatedly. The bacteriophage feeds on the living matter to which it is accustomed. Therefore the cultures in the wells ate up all the cholera organisms, purifying the drinking water; the cultures...