Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections...
...story about H. G. Wells and Vegetarian Bernard Shaw. Said Wells: "I don't like to peach on a pal, but Shaw cheats." Woollcott "tried to imagine the author of Candida and Saint Joan giving way to beefsteaks as a solitary vice." "Yes," said Wells. "He takes liver extract and calls it 'those chemicals...
...plasma, in synthetic rubber, photochemistry, explosives, helium, winter lubricants for tanks and planes. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...most persistent, subtle and confiding questions failed to extract from these men the least hint that that present life was in any way other that an immense improvement over the past. They referred to their newly acquired squaws with the utmost reverence. Scowed are they already...
...word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...