Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since September 21, meteorologists have devoted much study to the hurricane which on that day cut a swath of destruction through New England. Last week Director Charles Franklin Brooks of Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory at Milton, Mass., declared that sea spray picked up by the storm was carried 50 miles inland...
Mechanical pumps have a certain limit beyond which they cannot decrease the vacuum chamber pressure any further. So Dr. Hickman has designed a sort of chemical pump which goes to work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...
...Bordeaux mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...
...Edge of the World (Joe Rock). Documentary treatment of life on the bare, spray-soaked Scotch island of Foula, proving again, with superb views of Foula's cliff-scrambling denizens, that human existence is most photogenic where it is least cosy...
...white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan's Battery wall. At her helm was no pessimistic college senior, but a persuasive, soft-spoken yarn spinner who had ridden out a depression, tasted the tang of the world...