Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout England the freezing of rivers which generally remain liquid all winter was so exceptional that skates to the value of ?1,000 ($4875) were purchased within three days from one London firm alone...
...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...
...Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said...
...University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...
...other invention is an explosive which consists of finely divided carbonaceous material (coal, root, etc.) which liquid air, under cautious control, ignites. It is "cheaper and more volatile than dynamite...