Word: sediments
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...Darwin the collecting was poor owing to the large amount of sediment in the water, and only 65 species of echinoderms were found, according to Professor Clark...
...produce methane (marsh) gas. Twenty pounds of pulped debris will develop 100 cu. ft. of gas, enough to light and heat the average farm house for a day. Corn stalks from 40 acres will give a winter's supply of gas. After the gas is exhausted the sediment in the tank can be purified and made into paper.-Illinois' Arthur Moses Buswell...
...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...