Word: frozenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silica gel grains act as a pump. In the pores of the silica gel, the vapor liquefies, giving it enormous power to absorb vapor. With a small flame under the gel the condensed vapor is driven off, so that its absorbent qualities are unimpaired until the remaining water is frozen...
Another serious problem for the larger makers of industrial alcohol is the competition afforded their product by glycerin compounds for preventing frozen radiators. Glycerin is a by-product of soapmaking, and such large soapmakers as Lever Bros, and Procter & Gamble are strenuously seeking to market glycerin anti-freeze mixtures. The Commercial Solvents Co. and the United Carbide Co. also are perfecting competitive mixtures for the same purpose...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
...delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...
...mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore...