Word: knowns
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Walter Hines Page was an Anglophile, literary, philosophic. No Anglophile is grinning, cussing Joe Kennedy, known and loved by millions of English-speaking...
Thirty-six gases were used in World War I-every one of which was a known chemical compound or element and many (like chlorine and phosgene) were useful in peace before the War. Their use in battle was not a scientific but a manufacturing problem. With their powerfully developed chemical industry, the Germans had a considerable edge on the Allies, and Allied gas warfare was largely a series of belated retaliations...
...incendiary bombs, military men favor thermite, a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder which burns at a temperature of 3,000° C. (about 5,400° F.). Thermite was known before, and used as an incendiary during World...
...military metallurgy, beryllium is rated a new wonder metal. The element beryllium was discovered by a Frenchman in 1797, but during World War I and for years afterward there was no known use for it; in 1923 its price was $5,000 per pound. But beryllium ores are scattered widely over the world and last week the price of the metal was down to about $11. Not quite twice as heavy as water, beryllium is one of the lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard...
...over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked as if this might be not only the worst but the worst-covered war in recent history...