Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars. The curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most of the 500 U. S. plants, workmen with porcelain pitchers tediously hand-poured the liquid on flat plates of glass, had to wait a half-hour or more for the solution (silver ammonium nitrate and Rochelle Epsom salts) to deposit its silver...
Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...
...jiggling minarets, and their domes wobbled. All around people shrieked, or stupidly asked what was happening. Animals stampeded. Human legs grew weak, but when people fell in the snow, they crawled and slithered in a desperate struggle to get to open fields. All around the white ground seemed liquid and rough as a choppy...
Rules may have been relaxed for Christmas, but Stillman placed its ban upon New Year's Eve celebrations. Orange juice was passed around at 9:30 o'clock, temperatures were taken, and lights doused at ten as usual. Nurses refused to comment on reports that liquid refreshments were served after hours...