Word: ti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smokescreen was made, as usual, with titanium tetrachloride. It is carried in liquid form, in tanks specially installed in the airplane. When the pilot operates a valve, air is forced into the tank by the speed of the plane in flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth...
...name of His Majesty is Prajadhipok, easily pronounced with accent on the second syllable pra-chatī-ti-pok. Like nearly all Siamese the King is a Buddhist, officially Defender of the Faith...
...Gonave (though Wirkus did not know it) was a socialistic matriarchate, ruled by Head Queen Ti Memenne, fat, squaw-like but executive. Under her were various sub-queens who presided over societies "which were actually labor unions." Ti Memenne took a great liking to Wirkus, treated him like a son, and used all her considerable influence to back up his authority. Another thing Wirkus did not know was that he shared the name "Faustin" with one of Haiti's black emperors, Faustin Soulouque...
...Queen Ti Memenne's support Wirkus soon added the genuine confidence and friendship of her subjects. He discovered they were being impoverished by grafting tax collectors; got the grafters removed and put in his own men. When he wanted to build a house he had his policemen round up vagrants whom he turned into paid workmen. Some of his other activities: judge, lighthouse keeper, sanitary inspector, census taker, doctor. The baby problem he solved by sending for the late Dr. Luther Emmet Holt's Care & Feeding of Children...
Months ago, with trunks full of silver and an iron constitution, General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...