Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct of materials under these pressures is of great interest. Steel is used as a lubricant in the apparatus, for oil becomes solid under compression. Four different types of lee have been discovered. Which freeze at different temperatures and pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressure chamber of the pump...
...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
...Governor-solid, persevering, long-mustached Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt of Arizona who lately failed of reelection for his seventh term (TIME, Nov. 12) walked quietly down the Capitol steps. He explained that the blow he had received was "inadvertently brought about when State Senator Colter moved his arms in argument...
Bertrand H. ("Bert") Snell of Potsdam, N. Y., is a banker and cheesemaker. Short, florid, solid, he combines the rigidity of a businessman with the facility of a politician. There is small room for humor in his job of ramming resolutions through the Rules Committee and he seldom smiles. Amherst graduated him one year ahead of Calvin Coolidge and Dwight W. Morrow...
Lifeboats. On solid land, in Astoria, Anthony J. Lewkowicz, designer of the lifeboat davits and skids with which the Vestris was equipped, gave audience to newspapermen. He declared the lifeboats were unsinkable, the tackle was foolproof. Said he: "With my davits a boat with a full load can be launched safely by one man ... in spite of 32-degree list. . . . The average time is 15 seconds." But lifeboats did capsize and sink; tackle fouled and broke; and some boats, manned by fools or not, took two hours to launch...