Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cora had advertised that her treatment was painless, but a beauty shop operator from Columbus testified: "She put some liquid on my face, and it was just like liquid fire." Though no one testified to actual injury from Cora's treatment, doctors said in court that since it peels off the top layer of skin by a slow burn, the phenol formula would definitely do damage; it might also injure the kidneys...
...brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened to be highly flammable spirits of camphor...
...about the current that is consumed by resistance in the coils of the generator's magnet-a problem that has plagued experimenters in the past. Avco scientists are working on coils made of newly developed superconducting material that loses all electrical resistance when cooled to the temperature of liquid helium. A magnet with such coils can maintain a powerful field while consuming no current...
...rise through the sewage and attract the detergent molecules. The froth is then drawn out of the cylinder, carrying 95% of the detergent with it and also other organic contaminants that may be in the sewage. The bubbles soon collapse, and the detergent collects in a small amount of liquid that is easily treated and disposed of. It can be dumped into any river without causing it to foam. After chlorination, says Engineer Eldib, it may even be pure enough for drinking. Short of selling housewives on the idea of returning to old-fashioned cleansers. Dr. Eldib's bubbles...
Woods, who was hand-picked for the job by Black himself, has the same sort of deceptively casual air as Black. He likes to drape his long, thin frame over a chair in his First Boston office, fix visitors with his liquid brown eyes and invite them to "walk around the problem." The walk is friendly and pleasant, but when it is over, the visitors usually find themselves accepting Woods's view...