Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irrigation of the antrum"-flooding it out with salt solution-used to be very popular, but should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. It must, of course, be done by a doctor...
...husbands too much about isolationism. Townsfolk simplified it by calling them snobs. By summer "The Strangers" found more congenial company in such homes as the 40-room mansion of Socialite Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank, ex-Democratic Committeewoman and No. i female America-Firster; the summer castles of the Mortons (salt), the Cranes (plumbing); the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags (washing machines) from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva...
...vital ingredient of chlorophyll, and without it leaves would not be green. Every cubic mile of sea water contains 5,700,000 tons of it. Whole mountains of its ores lie among the Austrian Alps, the southern Appalachians, the Sierra Nevada. The far Western States are strewn with it; salt lakes are saturated with it. But until aviation came along, nobody wanted...
Mining the Ocean. A year ago magnesium was extracted from only one source, Michigan's brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there...
...their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages burgeon with blueberries, cranberries, marsh grass, salt spray and ospreys...