Word: sulphureous
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Citlaltepetl (Mountain of the Star), a volcano 18,000 feet high and situated near Orizaba in the State of Vera Cruz, belched forth showers of sulphur, filling the air and covering the ground for miles around. Snow completely disappeared from the summit, its place being taken by a cloud of sulphurous gas. "The nearby dwellers feared an eruption...
...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 drug-store...
...practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...National Tax Association held its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. It was addressed by William Raymond Green of Council Bluffs, la. It happens that Mr. Green is a Congressman, and in the last Congress stood next in seniority to Joseph Warren Fordney on the all-powerful Ways and Means Committee. With Mr. Fordney's Congressional demise, Mr. Green will become Chairman of that Committee. If a new revenue bill should be passed in the next Congress it will be a Green-Smoot, instead of a Fordney-Mc Cumber, bill...
...invented by Charles C. Bussey, of New York, is in successful operation at Louisville, Ky. It differs in method from the Piron system, but gives somewhat similar results. It utilizes inferior bituminous coal and oil shale, and yields by-products of fuel oil, gas, ammonia and benzol, while eliminating sulphur and phosphorus from the coke...