Word: sulphureous
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...schedule calls for participation in matches in five different cities. Two matches on this year's list were on the schedule which the University netmen faced last season. In the Mason-Dixon Championships at White Sulphur Springs last Spring, the Crimson team suffered its only defeat when Tilden, Richards, and other net stars of a like caliber subdued the Harvard players. The net team with again meet the Norfolk Country Club players, whom they defeated last Spring...
April 16, Agawam Hunt Club at Providence; 18-19, Mason and Dixon Championships at White Sulphur Springs; 20-21, Norfolk Country Club at Norfolk, Va., 22, Chevy Chase Country Club at Washington; 23, Columbia...
...Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted of ten thin plates of bismuth,* piled one on another, with wires running between them, the whole protected by sulphur and contained in a box. It exploited bismuth's properties of rectifying alternating currents and of adding to any charges of energy it receives. . . . Dr. Craig temporized with the $100,000 offer...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."- TIME...
...cents worth of water, iron, lime, sulphur, sugar...