Word: seep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dimethyl sulfide. once an evil-smelling waste left behind in kraft-papermaking, is being used to give an odor to natural gas, which otherwise could seep through a house without being detected. Scientists think they may also be able to use the chemical as a starting material for making a permanent antifreeze...
...There are many parents in Pasadena who would like to see the high scholastic standards of Caltech seep through its walls to our schools...
...chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...pails to the factory. That left the water. The sprawling, four-story plant had been built 52 years ago in a district where the city then had no water mains, so it relied on its own drilled well. Old soil pipes might have cracked or rusted through, letting sewage seep into the water supply...
...Robertson lets his confusion seep into his conception of the academic principles of his own University. He wants the Class of '29 to finance an alumni "watchdog Committee" which would bring professors' "socialistic and communistic" views into the arena of public debate, whereupon teachers would either change their ideas or change their jobs. But he forgets there already is such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls...