Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skilled laborers worked day and night to complete the jet black Lenin Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, in time for May Day celebrations...
...were a sieve; and there are six different kinds of ice instead of the one that used to be found in cocktails. At these pressures it was found that white phosphorus when heated to 390 degrees suddenly changed from a colorless, waxy, translucent material to a much denser, jet-black, flaky substance like the graphite or black "lead" used in lead pencils. This is an absolutely new form of the element, with properties all its own and with a smaller chemical activity even than red phosphorus. Chemists at Harvard are studying the properties of the new form with a view...
...will not correctly indicate a true vertical line, when subject to the air disturbances a plane must inevitably meet. A spinning top, once vertical, will stay with its axis vertical no matter how disturbed. So will a gyroscope. By a simple adaptation of the gyroscope, driven by an air jet, a true level indicator has been developed...
...tall, slim, dark man, his hair is streaked with gray. His pale face is adorned with a jet black goatee...
...modern Freshman do not relish sermons in print, and the modern attitude tends to jet each man shift for himself. Furthermore, there are no longer the convenient though sometimes irksome rules of conduct which made his way easier than he suspected. To take the place of these, various systems of voluntary advice have been invented, each more or less helpful, but non entirely adequate. The Student Advisory Committee, in particular, with its individual adviser appointed for each Freshman, is able to give much help in an intimate and varied...