Word: geyser
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...unsuccessful lawsuits, his trips to Dublin, his impatience with the government, his troubles with his irresponsible son. A widower, Mr. Bulkeley had a 20-year-old son and a 21-year-old daughter when he began his diary. Blowing up about debts, lawyers and parsons, as methodically as a geyser erupting, Mr. Bulkeley seems a good deal like the individual Clarence Day pictured in Life With Father as he fumes about the "shrubs," "up-starts" and "Hypocritical Pharisees" who were trying to collect money he owed them...
...Saratoga springs spurt supercharged soda water. The kind named Geyser contains bicarbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron It is antacid, aids digestion, relieves gastric distress. Other Saratoga waters contain chlorides of sodium (table salt), potassium, lithium, ammonium. The kind called Coesa is a mild laxative; the kind called Hathorn, a vigorous cathartic. Dr. Baruch after drinking "not wisely but too well, learned a lesson which I have often taught others -that these waters must be prescribed with care...
After Governor Lehman and other dignitaries finished reading speeches and telegrams at last week's dedication ceremonies, he led a large party into the Hall of Springs, a big, pillared and arcaded brick & limestone building. It contains three circular yellow marble fountains, from which well Geyser, Hathorn and Coesa waters. Patients and visitors fill glasses at the fountains, stroll through the arcades sipping and gossiping until the waters work. An orchestra plays in a balcony...
...most ingenious of the editors solved the problem; and so the Harvard Herald will announce in its first issue a magnificent and stupendous contest. To the member of the College who submits to the Herald the best 1000000000 word explanation of the "Wherefore and Why of Old Faithful, the Geyser at the East End of Wigglesworth Hall," will be given a five hundred thousand dollar prize...
...Geysers are caused when water plugs a vent from the earth's hot interior to the surface. The interior heat boils the deep water, which at first cannot escape because of the weight of the water higher up in the hole. A moment arrives when steam pressure is enough to lift all the water out of the hole. At that moment practically all the pent water suddenly changes to steam. The geyser spouts, subsides, until the critical steam pressure is again built up by subterranean heat...