Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attracted by the oozing sap, a winged bark louse flitted greedily around the tree. Alighting on the sticky stuff, he was soon stuck fast. A watchful spider darted toward the struggling louse, had almost reached him when the flow of sap engulfed both him and his quarry...
Last week New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, chairman of the House Labor Committee, offered Elmer Andrews' amendments to Congress. Doing so, she conceded that the Act as it stands "has tended to create hardship on employers, reduce employment and generally dislocate the flow of business in a particular industry...
Last week the metallurgical journal Metal Progress commented on the researches of Professor Daniel Hanson of England's University of Birmingham, who had divided creep into four stages. These are elastic stretch (like rubber); plastic flow (like mud); slower plastic flow; approach to fracture. Professor Hanson's theory of fracture is that the metal atoms, under continuing mechanical stress plus their own agitation due to heat, are moved one by one to new positions so that the whole structure is weakened. When enough atoms are thus individually moved, the metal breaks...
...past year to feed a family of ten, she had lost 25 pounds. After a preliminary examination Dr. Simpson thought that Mrs. Barber's pancreas might be functioning abnormally, that it might be burning up too much sugar in her blood and somehow causing an excessive flow of digestive juices, which sharpened her appetite...
Public utilities were an avenue into which private capital could flow, he said. Now that the TVA fight was over, this avenue was open again. Not without sarcasm, but still reassuringly, Harry Hopkins added: "There has been no indication that government wishes to own and operate all the utilities of this country...