Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After this, it is heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It then runs through two coagulant pots, one of soda ash and the other of alum, which prevent undue acidity. The main work of filtration is done by 27 tons of special graded Cape May, New Jersey, fine sand, through which the water seeps. Before entering the pool again, the water is impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color and which disinfects the water while it is in the pool. The results of this addition can be tested by comparing a test tube full of water with...
...Asked by the Court, "Are you plotting a revolution?", he snarled, "Nein!" we are merely planning an intellectual eruption of the German people by peaceful means. . . . Within three years 35,000,000 of the 40,000,000 German voters will support us. . . . Heads will roll in the sand...
Grimly French statesmen waited to see what, if anything, Chancellor Hitler would write on the blank check thus signed over to him last week by German voters. In his "Heads will roll in the sand" declaration he promised that when he came to power his government would "seek to abrogate or revise the Treaty [of Versailles] by diplomatic negotiations. I solemnly assert that if these fail we shall proceed to ignore or circumvent the Treaty, with legal means if possible; failing that with illegal means. The world may call that 'illegal' but I am answerable solely...
Said Warden Alson: "A barrel of corn mash, charged with alcohol, is left overnight near a sand bar or a sluice where wild ducks are known to feed. Early the next morning the hunters return. There are the ducks, either sleeping off a hangover or staggering around making silly quacking sounds. The alcohol leaves the ducks incapable of flying or swimming, and they are caught easily by hand. Some die of acute alcoholism...
Convulsions beneath the Pacific, said Father Hubbard, are building sand bars which seem destined to join the islands to the mainland, perhaps to restore the lost land bridge across which the Mongolian forbears of Amerindians are presumed to have wandered from Asia. "Unimak Is- land," he said, "a 90-mile long land mass, is the latest bit to desert the islands and, both geologically and biologically, become a portion of Alaska. In the lifetime of the present generation sailing vessels glided between the islands and the mainland through what is known as False Pass. At low water today a school...