Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate substitute for the thrill of superficial interest, unless he has developed a measure of intellectual curiosity and mental will-power, he is unlikely to be a success in college, whatever his facility in a direction where he may have found case and entertainment. These are the most important liquid assets which the secondary school can assist him to acquire. His permanent intellectual capital consists not in a completed educational structure but in the foundation which he has built broad enough and strong enough to carry either the superstructure that he has planned and begun to erect or even...
Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
...substantiating the statement. The results of the poll certainly indicate that liquor still flows for all who desire it, and hence there seems no logical reason for attributing any decline in drinking that may be assumed to the Volstead Act even by imputation. Moreover, remembering that liquid entertainment has been shown to be available in plenty by the poll, the results can be taken to indicate conclusively that there are other and more substantial reasons that thirst for modification of the Prohibition situation...
Fortnight ago Siemens Schuckert of Berlin* announced a new switch to handle current up to 600,000 volts without spattering fire. It does not resort to the use of oil baths or air blasts. It operates in a pool of a secret liquid, allegedly far more efficient than...
...Rayon is produced from any form of cellulose, primarily cotton. When made of wood (viscose rayon) it is treated with sodium hydroxide which reduces it to alpha cellulose. After this it is treated with carbon bisulphide. After one more step an orange-colored, syrupy liquid results which is forced through tiny holes, forming filaments, which after being treated in baths become rayon thread. From a laboratory invention, rayon has grown to be the world's third largest textile...