Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, the Navy Department is studying a radical departure in airplane motors. Working on the famous Diesel engine principle, air may be compressed to 600 pounds per square inch or more than 40 times atmospheric pressure before delivery to the cylinder. With this enormous pressure liquid gasoline may be injected directly into the cylinder with the compressed air, without the necessity for a carburetor. The temperature of the mixture of fuel and air is so high that it will ignite spontaneously without any ignition system. The carburetor and the ignition systems are the great terrors of the flyer, as they...
...first concert of its third series, with Mme. Louise Homer assisting. In a long and trying program, traveling from Bach and Palestrina through Brahms to Bossi and Coleridge-Taylor they outdid themselves. Were their talents not so well known hereabouts, much might be said of their round and liquid sustained tones, their inclsive staccati, their impeccable diction, their lightnesses and their depths; as it is, a few words about their programme will suffice...
...bare feet of their superiors. From my reading in the records, I was able to identify these figures at once, by their insignia, as members of the Qua Quan Quot. Later our geologist explained that the men had evidently been mummified or petrified by the sudden explosion of a liquid used by the Incas for brilliant illuminating effects, such as red and green lights. The gas thus created, combining with a rocksecretion of volcanic origin, was enough to account for the explosion which had originally sealed the mouth of the cave and preserved these bodies through so many ages...
...less preposterous. For the sake of paying high rates on savings, commercial loans have been sought at exhorbitant rates indicative of the utmost insecurity. There seems little doubt that practices approximating extortion have been countenanced. Mismanagement and poor judgment have led to the accumulation of resources far from liquid, slow loans, worthless paper, dubious realty holdings, and notes impossible to collect...
Uncertainty as to how the summer vacation may best be spent always exists in the minds of many undergraduates until the examinations are upon us. Those who cannot afford to loaf at the seashore or seek liquid consolation in Europe or Canada are confronted with the important problem: What temporary employment is there available? A solution may be found in tutoring positions and the like, but the man who wants an open-air job, involving a not to too strenuous degree of physical labor, meets the greatest difficulty in placing himself...