Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seaweed has completely mantled its lower surfaces. The interior is fairly well intact, even to champagne bottles in the wardroom. Barnacles and muscles encrust the sides; mud and sand have drifted in. The divers will be called upon to shut the seacocks, to close all the openings with metal patches and concrete plugs. Then a six-foot pipe will be sunk through the decks; pumps having a lifting capacity of 5,000 tons of water an hour will be lowered. If everything is plugged up, the ship will become buoyant and rise to the surface. There are many...
...trace the transference of fear from one object to another, a rabbit was given a child and at the same time an iron bar was banged against a piece of metal. This was repeated. The child confused the noise, which he feared, with the rabbit, made the same response to both. This process of association was also used to effect cures. One baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close...
...business today involves credit, and all credit involves the metal gold. The yellow metal has been chosen over an experience of centuries as the best known substance out of which to coin money, for many rea- sons. Among these is the fact that gold is scarce, and a supposedly elementary substance...
...value measured in commodities. Stocks would soar unless their dividend rates were fixed. All commodity prices would rise. Another basis for money all over the world would have to be discovered, legislated upon, adopted. America, the richest nation in the world, would find herself loaded with tons of yellow metal useful only to fill teeth or roof houses...
...fuselage rests solidly on a metal pontoon, and with the landing gear drawn up, the craft is a seaplane. But let the pilot press on a button, and a small electric motor, driven by a storage battery, releases landing wheels at the side of the pontoon, draws them out and downward and in eleven seconds the craft is a land plane. In the first tests the amphibian made 30 landings alternately on land and water without a hitch...