Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he saw the sea outside Gloucester. Somebody had said something to the gods of wind and wave; they were in a fury. Salt spray was lashing over the deck, the bow dug through green water as it plowed along undecided whether to be a boat or a submarine. One sail had blown to shreds and he struggled to get up a trisail, a little handkerchief of a sail, in its stead. The din of the wind and the water dulled his hearing. Then he saw the wind and waves and water receding as be sneaked into Boston harbor...
...Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work...
...Santa Cruz, Calif, hills, George Spray called a convention of nudists at his Elysium Foundation. Three hundred and ninety appeared. Rival Nudist James F. Curl, who had called his convention for two weeks later, belittled Nudist Spray's convention, saying that some of the delegates had been seen wearing pants. Sneered he, "A nudist wearing pants is no nudist at all. He should be shaken from orthodox ranks...
Scornfully replied Nudist Spray, ''They're just sore because our meeting precedes theirs by two weeks. I didn't invite Curl here anyway. I am going to organize the Western Nudists' Alliance. We'll have more people here than Curl will have at six of his conventions...
...last week imaginative doctors figured out a way of making the spray effective in small children whose nostrils are too narrow to admit the tip of an atomizer. An extra amount of the protective solution is sprayed into the lower part of the child's nares. Then for a moment the child is held upside down, thus causing the liquid to flow against the nerves of smell which must be covered, if the virus of infantile paralysis is to be kept from invading the brain and spine...