Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever every year, that at the rate of decrease which has accompanied the Relief privy program West Virginia would be entirely rid of those diseases within five years...
...appearance of this Nova, according to Campbell, has made available much more date, both visually and spectrosopically, than any previous appearance of a Nova. This may lead to an explanation of what takes place in the interior of a star. Most stars are not in such a state of flux, and conceal their interiors with clouds of luminous gases, but Nova Herculis represents a remarkable example of stellar activity...
...successor of Dean Edgell, former head of the School, was appointed last June. The changes which he is initiating are still in a state of flux, but he revealed their general objective...
...Cronin also traces the consequences of the disaster in the lives of Richard Barras, the mine owner, and his son, pictures them living in a class that is in a state of violent flux with its Wartime fortunes and post-War bankruptcies. Discovering that his father had willfully sacrificed the men, young Barras spent a fortune, eventually lost the mine, trying to make it safe and yet pay high wages...
...white, nonmetallic mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...