Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane...
In Chicago, a Mr. & Mrs. William Watkins were startled last fortnight to discover on their new baby's back a bit of adhesive tape labeled "Bamberger." They telephoned to the hospital where Mrs. Watkins had lain-in, then to one Charles Bamberger & wife. Had their newborn son been labeled...
Above the upper reaches of the stratosphere, higher than man has ever studied, stretches the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized ether which acts as a conductor (or reflector) of radio waves. If man could study these regions he might gather valuable meteorological data, possibly discover new air travel lanes for...
Unleashed in an oak grove where truffles (warted, globular fungus growths) are found, they race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an...
Margaret Yorke is the mysterious, young, occasionally beautiful companion of a rich old California lady and governess to the r.o.C.I.'s adopted little boy. Margaret is above her station; there is not much doubt of that. But why is she so hostile to rich, tanned, charming, fairly young Stan Crittenden...