Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last...
...paid to caste, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude, the average Harvard man finds it hard to see just what he can really agitate about. Student publications, for instance are not victimized by political censorship, such as "The Daily Texan" has had planted over its presses by local sulphur-mining interests. Faculty councils have not been bothered by dismissals, right or wrong, like the Davis case at Yale, University officials have not been pained by hot-headed and emotional strife such as Burke, however justifiably, stirred up at Columbia. In short, Harvard has gone about its business in peace...
...foot" in all parts of the country, I can give you an expert's description of how it is applied: A book-match is stuck between the upper and sole of the shoe. It is usually placed in the instep on outer side of the shoe. Naturally, the sulphur end extends...
...swank Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one day last week, members of the convening Society of Automotive Engineers traipsed into a darkened room, blinked in the glare of a pair of automobile headlights, then, passing behind a clear glass windshield, observed that although the light beams illuminated the room display, they no longer glared into the observer...
Molybdenum, first isolated in 1782, de rives its name from the Greek word meaning lead-like, is known in trade as "moly." Little use was found for the metal until the end of the 19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...