Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recapitulated their recent experiments and reports for the Electrochemical Society convened in New Orleans. For nearly a century there has been controversy over whether carbon was liquefied in the heat of the arc. The Cleveland chemists showed conclusively that the carbon does not liquefy but sublimes directly from a solid to a vapor as dry ice does. The sublimation point is a fundamental constant of the element and represents the maximum arc temperature. Determining this constant within narrow limits provides, according to Dr. Chaney, "a convenient and much needed bench mark for all high temperature measurements." It is of help...
...purpose of the conference is to get the college clubs organized into a solid unit so that they can have an influence in legislation and get ERA funds behind them...
...RICHARD GARDEN-Neil Bell-Little, Brown ($2.50). Lengthy, solid novel about a father and his idolized son, by the author of Bredon and Sons...
...average housewife's kitchen, where only a little food is prepared at a time," answered Mr. Kriens, "the labor-saving device is hardly worth the trouble of keeping it clean." Thus rebuffed, Show newshawks pecked out reams about its solid butter fan-dancer by Sculptor R. A. Adamson (see cut), described as "the Show's centre of real attraction...
Henry Marlowe Curry Jr., 48, is a solid-looking citizen of Pittsburgh whose inheritance from his father, a onetime partner of Steelman Andrew Carnegie, supports his stock-trading and 6,000 acres near Waynesboro, Ga. There, with the assistance of Trainer Fred Bevan, he raises pointers, shoots and fishes. He rarely finds time to attend dog trials himself. Last week he was visiting his son at Phillips Academy at Andover...