Word: denser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most substances when solid or frozen sink in their own liquids, by ice floats, because liquid water is denser than it is when frozen. Harvard experiments have now shown that water follows the general law, but for some reason not yet known, does it at a different pressure...
...procession drew into Boston the crowds grew denser and more conclusively enthusiastic. Some 150,000 people jammed Boston Common and vicinity and police reserves and guardsmen were almost powerless. Boss Curley introduced the President who made a speech from his car. A good part of the crowd did not hear him because the amplifiers were not strong enough...
...Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...
...suffered by Jumper Evceyef was no worse than if he had jumped from only 2,000 ft. and pulled his ripcord at 500. A man's body attains maximum velocity (120 m.p.h.) after falling 1,400 ft. Evceyef probably fell at 200 m.p.h. through rarefied atmosphere before the denser atmosphere of lower altitudes slowed him down...
...Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about 120 m.p.h. Not until he was down to 3,500 ft. did Jumper Tranum yank open his 'chute. The violent check to his fall bruised him. He had dropped 17,500 ft., a half-mile farther than the previous record holder...