Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
Since modern aircraft engines demand a very volatile fuel, Standard's fuel would seem to make about as much sense as dousing firewood with water. But Standard's engineers believe that their fuel has been made feasible by recent experiments with new types of engines in which liquid fuel (instead of vapor) is injected directly into the cylinders. At the high temperatures inside a cylinder (well above 105°) the new fuel vaporizes readily and develops as much power as straight 100-octane gasoline...
...example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...
From his cell, he tried to patent a method of catching fish by sucking them through seawater pumps directly into a ship, where they would be refrigerated by liquid air. His lawyer often found him standing before a window, holding up to the sun light a bowl of water containing a number of complicated thermometers. He would not say what these experiments were...
...aphid, feeding on leaf juices, secretes a sweet liquid called "honey-dew" to which ants are very partial. Some varie ties of ants keep herds of aphids, like cows, and milk them by stroking the abdomen gently with their antennae; a well-fed aphid may yield 48 drops of "milk...