Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Water jets must play constantly in a textile mill to keep the fibres moist and pliable...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...
...alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body and cools the fevered brow. When alcohol in a liniment is rubbed into the skin it dilates the blood vessels and relieves the twinges of lumbago, neuritis, "muscular rheumatism." Anhydrous alcohol (alcohol with all but 0.1% of its water removed) makes gasoline more potent, but at present gasoline is cheaper than alcohol and industrial alcohol is not much used for motor fuel in this country. In Germany, however (where cheap gasoline is not so readily available), many an automobile guzzles a mixture of about half alcohol, half gasoline
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
...Ithacans, as yet untried, are an unknown quantity, and the Crimson can base no hopes for victory on its race of a few days ago, for the Engineers were completely disconcerted by the rough water...