Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smellodrama scheduled for release next month. *Developed by Rhodia, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of industrial perfumes. Among Rhodia's products: pine scent for knotty-pine-patterned wallpaper, leather smell for plastic briefcases, new-car odor for used cars, tobacco smell for cigar boxes, Strawberry scent for embalming fluid...
...moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey of the University of California points out that the moon may have a fluid metal core that is not moving fast enough to stir up measurable magnetism...
...Continent. Lamont men think the cracks may be proof that the continents indeed drifted away from each other, and are still drifting. Dr. Ewing recalled a theory of Venig Meinesz, who suggested that the early earth may have lacked the dense central core that it has today. Its hot, fluid inside material could circulate unhampered in a single "cell," rising to the surface on one side of the sphere and sinking down on the opposite side after cooling by radiation into space and getting heavier. When this had gone on long enough, all the light rock on the earth...
...more than one occasion proved herself to be a finer musician than many of the organists with a big reputation. Her playing last night was about as close to being note-perfect as any live organ recital I can recall. She manifested facile fingers, fleet feet, and fluid phrasing. Her choice of registration was always judicious, effective, and appropriate to the style and period of the pieces she performed. And there was none of the dreary or mechanical dispiritedness that characterizes so much organ playing these days...
...current directors took the play at farce value, and acted accordingly. They have come up with a show that is fast, funny, and fluid (in more senses than one). There is not one dull moment. And there is not one inferior performance: every player is at least up to par, and most of them far above it. Praise could be distributed simply by listing the entire roster of performers...