Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expert Red wreckers had placed dozens of small liquid air cartridges in the towering granite walls of Moscow's largest church, the Cathedral of the Christ Redeemer (capacity, 10,000 worshippers), a towering edifice with five domes dominating the Moscow skyline...
Among astronautical problems: fuel perfection; discovery of an alloy light enough for flight yet strong enough to withstand the tremendous outward pressure above the atmosphere; discovery of alloys which will hold their strength at the terrific heat of explosion and the terrific cold of liquid gases; pumping fuel for combustion; steering & braking; stability; protection of ship and occupants against stratospheric conditions...
...Cell (protoplasm), biologists agree, is made up of two main parts: the yolk-like nucleus and the oily cytoplasm. Both nucleus and cytoplasm contain solid and liquid portions; in addition they contain further specialized units of matter: in the nucleus, membrane, nucleolus, chromosomes; in the cytoplasm, membrane, granules, vacuoles, plastids. It is the behavior of these infinitesimal units that biologists are now trying to study...
There is no reason to believe that the University's finances are not handled honestly and there are few who would doubt that thy are not allocated properly. Moreover, it is easy to understand why the liquid funds should not be listed individually. But there are some items, of vital interest to both the undergraduates who attend the University and to the graduates who contribute to it, which should not be omitted as in this year's report. Certain issues are being evaded; a poor precedent is being set. The validity of the right cannot be doubted, but the manner...
...starter. He went to a banker friend and asked him for a $6,000 mortgage loan. Throwing up his hands in horror the banker declared: "Oh, Senator, we can't make any more loans at present. While we're sound, we must remain in a liquid condition." Senator Fess, disappointed, went to the building & loan associations to draw his cash. At each he was told he could not have it because the institution was too overloaded on real estate to make the advance. Woefully declared the G. 0. P. chairman: "That case is typical throughout...