Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well to 8,525 feet when I left that vicinity last fall. The well came in on low production but, to the amazement of oil men, volume both of gas and oil began to mount soon after, increasing markedly each 24-hour period. Oil was of such high gravity it was said to be fit for use for fuel for automobiles without refining...
...seem to indicate the culmination of the long established drift of the London market away from its position as world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen the cycle bring Depression, as have Industrials. British Consols, once the "world's safest security" have depreciated with high interest rates. Last week's lowering of the Bank of England's discount rate to 5% and the shipment of $21,000,000 gold from New York were bullish items on the London market but could not compensate for the collapse in the gigantic Royal Mail and doubts concerning Kylsant...
...Protestant leader made answer. Of representative Protestant journals, only the Christian Herald took notice of the Pope's statement. Editor Stanley High quoted it, made no comment. Said an editor of the Protestant Episcopal Churchman: "Only the Protestant editors are getting more and more exhausted...
...paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor...
...large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long. It produces a thin, cloudy, slightly alkaline, albuminous secretion, the physiological function of which is to increase the swimming speed of the microscopic male seed from a sluggish low to a high of one inch in two minutes...