Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conquest of the River Plate," Professor Haring, Harvard...
Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
Almeida Cell is neutral. The negative plate contains zinc crystals, the positive graphite mixed with silver. They rest in a solution of zinc chloride and zinc bromide. Batteries made up of these cells, said the inventor priest, are 93% efficient, whereas alkaline batteries are 50% efficient, acid batteries...
...fast left fielder might have reached but which Pittsburgh Outfielder Barnhart could not touch. In the eighth inning New York made six more runs, including a home-run by Batter Ruth with two men on base. With good fielding, however, Batter Ruth never would have come to the plate. Pitcher Meadows threw to first when he should have thrown to second, Second Baseman Rhyne threw to first when he should have thrown to second, and Rhyne also made a throw to the plate which failed to put out a runner coming in from third base. After these various misadventures...
...present is, however, that amidst all the hurry and rush of the times, there has been one man,--President Lowell,--who has not been too busy to provide for a possible future return to the art of living and eating when all good trenchermen will gather around the ancestral plate...