Word: sediment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every society, however perfected, there will always be at the bottom a noxious sediment and at the top an obnoxious froth...
...mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President who came into power when President Solorzano resigned a year...
...Page Reeves made it necessary for her to give up being herself and learn to cook. As a meticulous housekeeper, if not as a wife, Delia was a success, but the effort cost her great growing pains. Accordingly Page's cup of political and social success had a sediment of gall and not one, but two, generations misunderstood Delia. The writing is faintly ungrammatical and occasionally droning, but not unperceptive or unsympathetic. Mrs. Sachs is a neo-Tarkingtonian...
...diameter. The precipitating jars were about two feet high and four inches across at the top, tapering to a point; at the bottom. These jars were furnished with covers, to protect the contents. The brine was collected from saline springs, placed in the jars, and allowed to stand until sediment had formed. The clear brine was then poured into great pans and evaporated over a fire. The forms of both types of vessel were perfectly adapted to the use to which they were...