Word: kaolin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Ismet drove to Izmid, seized a trowel, laid the cornerstone of a paper factory designed to produce 35 tons of newsprint per day, or almost one-half of Turkey's present consumption. "Most of the raw materials," cried General Ismet, "we shall obtain locally, such as wood pulp, kaolin, resin and alum...
Professor Willstätter's method of segregating enzymes is beautifully simple. The enzymes are colloids. White clay (kaolin) filters absorb certain kinds of colloids, alumina filters certain other kinds. Enzymes, which pass through both alumina and clay filters, have a third set of characteristics. By shrewd use of colloidal physics and chemistry Professor Willstatter segregated the three important enzymes of pancreatic fluid-lipase which acts on fats, amylase which acts on carbohydrates, trypsin which acts on proteins...
...notable user of cotton paper as stationery is Louisiana's Governor Huey P. Long. His letters go out as a cambric-like cloth sized with kaolin, with a smooth web finish and high tensile strength. (The letterhead carries the State seal in blue-a floppy mother pelican feeding her young encircled by "Union, Justice & Confidence.") Explains Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours...
...means high. Kaolin, the white clay used in medicine and porcelain is Chinese for high hill, where the clay is found...