Word: liquidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Totaling up their liquid assets late last night, directors of the CRIMSON'S spring competition unearthed a few stray bottles of eight year old lager beer and announced that opportunities for late-comers to try their hand at the newspaper game were still open...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
...physicists knew that they were in dangerous, unknown territory. So above the pile was stationed a "liquid-control squad" to douse mutinous neutrons with cadmium-salt solution...
Both the indoor fog and the outdoor cloud, explained Schaefer, were "supercooled"; their tiny droplets, though well below the freezing point, were liquid water, not ice. They wanted to freeze, but for some reason could not. The dry-ice pellets broke the deadlock. "An almost infinite number" of submicroscopic "ice seeds" formed near their surface. These grew into snowflakes at the expense of the water droplets. The supercooled cloud precipitated...