Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colloids are substances which do not form a true homogeneous system when combined with other substances. They retain their identity as particles of ultramicroscopic size (from 1 to 100 millionths of a millimetre) when dispersed in another medium. Pulverized coal when added to oil will settle out almost immediately. It was known that in an extremely viscous oil coal pulverized as small as 1/10,000 of a mm. would sink with less speed. Also surface energies on the particles would tend to keep the mixture more stable. With coal ground so fine that it would pass through a sieve...
...year 1929, I paid a very delightful visit to a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons in Constantinople. There was a banquet and facing me on the other side of my table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while...
...would like to know who authorized you to speak for all Southerners and circulate around the world through the medium of your magazine that we blush with shame when labeled "Yankee...
...work for every tractor in operation. Half the tractors were idle. Horses and mules brought better prices proportionately than other livestock. More colts were being raised than for several years. Manufacturers of harness reported mounting sales. Purebred Percherons were bringing from $300 for mares to $1,000 for stallions. Medium weight animals (1,400 to 1,500 lb.) were most in demand. Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again. Low crop prices have made home-grown feeds for horses more economical than fuel for motors...
...writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers. The translations in English, moreover, are often of definite literary value themselves; the English of Jowett is not only a facile medium for conveying ancient culture to the modern mind, but has real intrinsic interest...