Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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July and August, especially, are months when ink gets more fluid and it is necessary to cut down on the thinner; when high humidity makes the absorbent paper stick to the rolls and break; when artists have trouble with their art, photostats get off the beam (expansion-contraction again), and what the sweating printer (working in temperatures up to 100 degrees) has to say about it all is unprintable...
Uncontrolled. In Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Sirmer hurled a bottle of lighter fluid at an annoying cat, tossed his flaming lighter after it, burned up the cat, burned down the house...
...circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
...troops to Government troops in Manchuria, agreed upon last February. Marshall was furious with Lo for telling the press that Marshall had said he would guarantee an agreement in 24 hours if the Communists would clearly state their demands. Chou, who hopes to keep the situation as fluid as possible, was equally furious because loquacious Lo had revealed a specific Red demand...
...Post-canoe Aristotle thought the baby was formed entirely of menstrual blood, a notion still held by certain moderns, including the Maoris. Not till the 17th Century did Swammerdam show that in conception it was necessary for the male fluid to make contact with the female, a heresy that outraged certain authorities of his time who argued that fertilization by the male was not necessary; not till the 18th Century were male germ cells discovered; only within living memory has the fusion of male and female germ cells been demonstrated...