Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazines. We can print the whole thing by 'coloroto' the way we do our Sunday supplements. Better still, we'll sell every other page for advertising, all the way through the entire magazine-that will get the advertisers ! And sell the whole thing for a nickel, in competition with The Saturday Evening Post. By , that's a wonderful mixture...
These examples may give some idea of the range of Professor Bridgman's work, which begins at 3000 atmospheres and goes up to 14,000--the highest ever reached by experiment. At this pressure mercury and hydrogen pass through thick nickel steel as though it were a sieve; and there are six different kinds of ice instead of the one that used to be found in cocktails. At these pressures it was found that white phosphorus when heated to 390 degrees suddenly changed from a colorless, waxy, translucent material to a much denser, jet-black, flaky substance like the graphite...
...competing West Shore road was leased, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern were purchased, an alliance affected with the "Big Four." This gave the Central a through route to Chicago, as well as an entry into Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis. The acquisition of the "Nickel Plate" removed dangerous competition. Subsequently the Central added more mileage by merger or construction. In the richness of territory it traverses and the number of large cities it touches, it is rivalled only by the Pennsylvania...
...Street. Apparently the rural drama is out to obliterate sex. That is the impression one gains from this new play of the small town. Author Purdy, won with his comedy-drama the prize of $500 offered by the Chautauqua circuit for the best play without sex; he earned every nickel of it. He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream...
Cables. Permalloy, a new alloy oi iron and nickel, with magnetic properties hundreds of times greater than those of either metal, applied by a new process to cable manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...