Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rica depends on coffee, calls the local coffee bean the "grain of gold." There is reason for this eulogy: the Costa Rican bean assays at 86% liquid coffee-making essence, as compared to the Brazilian bean's 29%. Costa Rica's politics revolve around coffee; the coastal banana has only secondary political influence...
Throngs of Filipinos stood in the rain beside the liquid roads of Leyte last week to watch the jeeps slosh by, to cheer, and cheer again. The whole green, steaming land had turned to quaking ooze. But there was no dampening the Filipino spirit...
Forty yards to our right and 60 to our left, the Crocks were still shooting their liquid death across the canal in spurts that slid over the water, then arched high into the air, hitting the bank and curling along and over it toward the Jerries' trenches. Everything it touched withered, then burst into flame...
...British chemist named F. S. Kipping, who developed the first practical formula for making them in 1904. Kipping saw little use for silicones. But researchers of the Corning Glass Works and General Electric, picking up where Kipping left off, have recently developed silicones in a variety of forms (liquid and solid) for a variety of purposes...
Wonders to Come. As liquid or vapor, silicones are sprayed on all sorts of materials to make them waterproof; they form a thin, invisible film which does not change the feel of the material. As oil or grease, they make ideal lubricants. As plastics, they are extremely tough. Some silicone wonders promised by engineers...