Word: turbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
...winning of the West, the multiplication of colleges, the series of Anti-Classical revivals in art and architecture--all phases of turbid, radical progress spiced with cultural glance over the shoulder at values inevitably doomed to extinction...
Ohio State's Dean Walter James Shepard, president of the American Political Science Association: "The ideology of the New Deal is illogical, inconsistent and turbid. Its program is a mass of undigested and contradictory experiments. It veers first to the right, then to the left. It embodies in its personnel men of the most divergent views. ... If there is any leadership in the New Deal it is the leadership of mounting one's horse and dashing off in every direction at once...
When the Cunard Line's oil-burning liner Scythia slid into New York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
...viscosity of oil is lowered when the oil is heated. To permit the fuel to remain stable when the temperature is raised a saponifier, such as grease, or a peptizer, such as a coal tar product, is added. This mess of coal, oil and stabilizer was the turbid black liquid pouring last week through the Scythia's fuel pipes...