Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts and figures concerning Italian finances. Since July 1, the internal debt shows a reduction of 1,175,000,000 lire* and a reduction of 25,007,000,000 lire since the Fascist! seized power. The internal debt now stands at 91,968,000,000 lire and liquid funds at disposal of the Treasury have been increased during the same period by 300,000,000 lire. For the first semester of the current fiscal year (July 1924 to June 1925), receipts have exceeded budgetary estimates by 679,000,000 lire, but a deficit was shown of 183,000,000 lire...
...reality no more than stone pipes bolstered with rubble. The weight of the dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral's solidity could be amply restored by the simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little below the crypt. The only way to keep St. Paul...
...thickness of blood was devised by timing its rate of descent through water. In this way, it was found that the blood may be diluted 10% in five minutes (by secretions of salt water from glands) if a person passes from a cold to a warm room. The additional liquid is provided by nature so that the blood may not become too thick through the loss of water by perspiration.-H. G. Barbour, W. F. Hamilton, M. H. Dawson, I. Neuwirth, University of Louisville...
Mercury, or quicksilver as it is sometimes called in the vulgar tongue, is a heavy metal with an unusually low melting point. On that account, it is in liquid form at ordinary temperatures; and its use is possible in thermometers for measuring most terrestrial temperatures. It is produced in five or six times the quantity of a metal like gold; but, because its uses, though unique, are limited, it usually sells for about $1 a lb., while gold is worth 300 times that amount...
...resin formed from equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,