Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Montrealers are likely to forget that they too are a maritime people no less than those whose homes gird the salt seas," said the Montreal Gazette last week. A thousand miles from the sea, Montreal is at the end of Canada's ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest...
Rowing with the tide on the Severn, a salt-water inlet, the Varsity sweep-swingers covered the distance in nine minutes flat. Coach Tom Bolles' worries about the Maryland weather went for naught as the day was judged a good one for racing...
Chemically, ammonium nitrate is a salt, a combination of a base and an acid. But it is far from peaceful, as most other salts are. Instead of having a metal (e.g., sodium or iron) as the basic part of its molecule, it has an ammonium "radical" (one nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms) masquerading as a metal. Its acid part is also a radical: one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms (see chart...
...atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...
...take two singles and one doubles match from Penn to make the most of a gloomy Friday afternoon. The brightest spot of the day was number-one man Ted Backe's first singles win of the current campaign, which the topped off by teaming with Steve Pratt to salt away Harvard's only doubles victory...