Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most substances when solid or frozen sink in their own liquids, by ice floats, because liquid water is denser than it is when frozen. Harvard experiments have now shown that water follows the general law, but for some reason not yet known, does it at a different pressure...
...fact that finance companies have no trouble in making collections, thinks Mr. Merriam, has nothing to do with the economic justification of installment selling. "Finance companies are liquid, and this is a source of satisfaction to themselves and to their banks,* but it can be little consolation to those who are dependent on a whole pyramid of industries...
...darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
...diseases were also due to such viruses: rabies, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, measles, yellow fever, certain tumors, common colds. At Princeton Dr. Stanley grew acres of tobacco plants, infected them with the disease known as tobacco mosaic, ground up their wizened leaves, extracted their juices. This liquid was highly infectious to normal plants. But the deadly principle could not be cultured like a bacterium. Dr. Stanley found that it could be digested - that is, destroyed - by certain enzymes such as pepsin. This was important. Pepsin digests only proteins. Finally, using an ammonium compound which nudges proteins...
There was one night when a socially prominent undergraduate had drowned his carefreeness with much potent liquid and was speeding merrily, if not somewhat like a May Pole dance along a suburban turnpike. Unluckily an innocent automobile blocked his way; he did not hit it hard, but hard enough to excite the driver, arouse hot words, and attract a state policeman who was parked nearby...