Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from bathing suits, the water will be heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum. which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will...
...Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
...such vast mirrors glass shrinks or expands with every little change in temperature. Such distortion has bothered the Mount Wilson observers. With quartz, however, great temperature changes are necessary to cause distortion. Dr. Thomson developed the method of fusing clean sand in the electric furnace...
...airports are thoroughly inadequate. For 25 miles around Manhattan, all the land is very nearly at sea level. To the east are the sand dunes of Long Island, to the west, the tidal mud marshes of New Jersey. Her airports are too far away, are all subject to fogs which render navigation impossible. (The seaplane base in New York harbor, while decreasing the distance to the centre of the city, will still be affected by fogs.) Because of fogs, U. S. airmail removed its original terminal from Curtiss Field, L. I., to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J., a distance...
...Yale News as willing to cooperate, though inclined to deprecate the effectiveness of collegiate participation. It may as well be granted at once that it is impossible to hope for anything like an immediate modification of existing conditions. But the drys know well that by patiently collecting grains of sand they have turned the United States into a legal desert. The modificationists might well copy their tactics and by abandoning their defeatist regrets, set patiently to work collecting drops of water with which to cultivate a more livable temperate zone...