Word: residuum
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...heart's residuum. . . . Amen...
Unfortunately, after the elements had been stirred and let simmer, the residuum didn't quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter...
...Spiritualists last week to be "sympathetic or at least fair" toward Spiritualism. Another committeeman, Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, hinted at the tone of the report when he told the Society for Psychical Research that, discounting fraud and illusion, there remained a residuum of fact suggesting the possibility of life after death...
...March 31, 1937, at Sun Oil's Marcus Hook plant hard by the Delaware River, engineers charged Houdry Unit 11-4 with 15,000 barrels of sloppy residuum after Sun's thermal cracking refiners had squeezed every drop of gasoline they could from the crude. Up went the heat to 900°. Pressure was applied. And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina. When 11-4 had done its work, yield sheets showed that the waste oil had given...
...Modern society has created its own tools. The first machine age, which today is coming to an end, has covered the world with the residuum of its work: houses and cities. We have not had time to bother with the happiness...