Word: lime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violent opposition to progressive ideas brings them all the more into the lime-light, and although all new things must face a long period of controversy, birth-control knowledge cannot help but become more general in a future era of increasing economic pressure as well as greater freedom of speech...
...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...little university town of Goettingen in Hanover is quiet, sleepy and very pleasant. There are drowsy promenades shaded by lime trees. There are old moss-carpeted ramparts. There are book shops and crooked cobbled streets...
...Fang Lai, Chinese research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...
...taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand for nitrophoska," exulted Herr Doktor Bueb, "has frequently been greatly in excess of the available supply." Aboard the Lutzow, last week, there were few if any "hush hush" conferences among the chemical tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will...