Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined to kerosene, gasoline and the usual by-products of that "black gold" which nature only makes after centuries of compression upon organic matter in subterranean strata...
...Kammerer's depositions and in an article for Nature (British monthly) drew the lenient conclusion that someone may have tampered with Dr. Kammerer's specimens. In particular, certain dark spots on some of the frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting a dark fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer, who had lately been offered charge of a new government laboratory in Russia and whose suicide was to be a shock and a mystery to the many scientists that had long held him in high esteem, investigated...
...London physiologists T. S. P. Strangeways and H. B. Fell cracked open several hatching eggs (64 to 72 hours incubation*) and scooped out the eyes of the unborn chicks. These eyes they placed in a glass dish which contained blood plasma and extract of embryonic fowl tissue, a viscid fluid. The tiny eyes dreamily bobbed about in this sticky medium, grew in "a surprisingly normal way," gave the horrible semblance of blinking at the experimenters who watched them last week...
General Motors contributed to a slight extent in stabilizing the credit of these banks. The corporation, with $190,000,000 in cash and securities on hand, has sent funds to Georgia under its policy of deploying fluid assets...
...Columbus, Ohio, Railroad Switchman Harry C. Cramer had an x-ray made of his chest. The left side had been distressing him. When he breathed, it scarcely budged. The x-ray showed that fluid had accumulated in his left pleural cavity (the space in which the lung moves), had squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation...