Word: tars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commercial value of ore deposits, and the co- erations of getting the ores out of the ground. Metallurgy deals with the extraction of metals from the ores and in preparing the metals for use. Industrial Chemistry is concerned with food stuffs, beverages, medicines, oils, dyes, gases, cement, asphalts, tar products, paper. The statements are of course not intended to be complete and accurate classifications, but merely illustrations...
...careful thought and meticulous expression; disappointing nevertheless, because the impression it leaves is one of somewhat ponderous mediocrity. We should gladly excuse graver faults if the aims of the magazine had been higher. One of its editors used to say to candidates, "Now go home and pour some hot tar into that story." With the exception of two very significant political utterances--Mr. Allinson's excellent communication on the present campaign and an editorial on "Political Clubs"--the November Monthly lacks "hot tar...
...number includes three pieces of verse, only one of which contains anything remotely resembling even lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something...
...receiving increasing attention as the large research laboratories of the General Electric Company and the Du Pont Powder Company and many similar smaller laboratories show. This research has led to such results as the discovery of carborundum, the artificial production of indigo and caoutchouc, the development of the coal-tar industry, the electrical production of nitric acid from the air, and the practical synthesis of ammonia from its elements...
...Seminary of Economics. "The Duties on Coal Tar Products and their Effects," by Mr. C. W. Haughton, in Upper Dane...