Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin (Bainbridge's mayor and Marv's paid state assistant) and six other Griffin administration officials, the governor is a stockholder in Caribe Transport Line, Inc., a company that will this spring take advantage of the facilities, put its one Honduran...
EGYPT. The $250 million barter deal that the Soviets negotiated with Nasser in September 1955 has cost Egypt dearly. What Egypt got was Czech arms-many of which were captured by the Israelis-plus such items as crude oil of such a high sulphur content that it damaged Egypt's refineries, and newsprint so coarse that it tore up Cairo's high-speed Western presses. In return. Nasser gave the Soviets a long-term mortgage on Egypt's cotton crop, the nation's No. 1 source of income. The Soviets started off by reselling Egypt...
...Texas, "and all of a sudden it wasn't." Johnny and his friend Billy Hembree, 17, were sent to a hospital last week with minor injuries after trying to fly their do-it-yourself rocket, a 2-ft. copper tube filled with a mixture of zinc dust and sulphur. They lit it and ran. "It was just like the Flopnik [Vanguard]," said Billy, "going great at first. Then it just folded." When they returned to investigate, the rocket exploded. Johnny and Billy were lucky; a few weeks earlier, Science Teacher Garland Foster of the Floydada, Texas high school...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...
Ultrasound, as the practitioners of a new and arcane art call it, refers to vibrations above the limit of human hearing (about 20,000 cycles per second*) In industry ultrasound waves are used to precipitate carbon and sulphur from chimney exhausts, abating the smoke nuisance and recapturing useful materials, and for testing big metal components such as locomotive axles for flaws. In dentistry there is the ultrasonic drill. In medicine a few enthusiasts have reported good results with ultrasound in arthritis, neuritis, muscle spasm and athletic injuries. It will break up gallstones or kidney stones in an animal...